roller boardn.
/ˈrəʊlə ˌbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər ˌbɔrd/ 1. Music. The board to which the rollers (roller n.1 6) are attached in an organ; the board and rollers considered collectively as part of the tracker action of an organ. Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts conveying action
roller1632
roller board1632
sticker1756
tracker1843
pricker1852
trace1852
button1855
trundle1876
fan1880
square1880
trace-rod1880
1632 in J. Crosse York Mus. Festiv. (1825) App. 2 Item the rowler board carriages and keyes, xx li.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 492/2 Figure 3 is a perspective view of a roller~board; AAA, the board on which the rollers are fixed.
1855 E. J. Hopkins Organ x. 47 There are..two distinct kinds of key-movement in common use in England; namely, the lever or fan-frame movement, and the roller-board movement.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building viii. 96 Rollers are in sets, like backfalls and squares, and are arranged symmetrically on a board called a roller-board.
1921 A. A. Stanley Catal. of Stearns Coll. Mus. Instruments (ed. 2) 229 In large organs the roller-boards were very complicated and the resulting friction greatly increased the difficulty of performance.
1954 Proc. Royal Mus. Assoc. 81st Sess. 3 The positive organ gave earlier facilities for its artistic development because it could be played by a simple development even before the ‘roller-board’ had been invented.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xxxiii. 215 The old man..gave him a tour of the instrument, describing in detail the multifold bellows, the wind trunk, the trackers, the roller board, the pipes of lead, tin, and wood.
2. A board mounted on rollers (roller n.1 7a).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > vehicle moving on rollers
roller board1906
1906 Chicago Tribune 14 Oct. d7/3 He [sc. a toy cat] has an artistic roller board with a racetrack on its edge, full of mice that chase each other every time he runs with it.
1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 765/2 The footboard of an automobile can be readily made into a roller board convenient for making investigations under the car.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. x. 58 Dean was frightfully waked up by the legless man on the rollerboard.
2002 Handbk. Geriatric Nursing Care (ed. 2) 581/1 Ease the patient onto the roller board and release the sheet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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