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单词 lapboard
释义

lapboard

[ lap-bawrd, -bohrd ]
/ ˈlæpˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

noun

a thin, flat board to be held on the lap for use as a table or writing surface.

Origin of lapboard

First recorded in 1830–40; lap1 + board

Words nearby lapboard

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Example sentences from the Web for lapboard

  • Jasper arose, put down his lapboard, shut his knife and with a serious air said to the old darkey.

    The Starbucks|Opie Percival Read
  • For, one morning, I found him ruling a sheet of paper on a lapboard—he had fumed until the nurse had given him his pen.

    Atlantic Narratives|Mary Antin
  • Only once had he set Cropsie and his lapboard literature aside, and followed his own impulse.

    A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill|Alice Hegan Rice

British Dictionary definitions for lapboard

lapboard
/ (ˈlæpˌbɔːd) /

noun

a flat board that can be used on the lap as a makeshift table or desk
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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