scaleboard
English
Etymology
scale + board
Noun
scaleboard (plural scaleboards)
- (obsolete, printing) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A thin veneer or leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture etc.
Derived terms
- scaleboard plane
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scaleboard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- broadscale