handboard

Etymology

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1. 1

   A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when…

   A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.

   • The usual handboard is made of thin light wood such as plywood, about a foot long and nine inches wide, with a curved front, straight sides, and a sawn-off rear end.
   • "All I see him doing is riding this handboard," says Nellis.
2. 2

   A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.

   • Having occasion for a writing handboard, such as could be bought in London for 2s. 6d. or less, I was charged 7s. 6d. for one in Montreal.
   • These forms can be fastened to a handboard by means of thumb tacks and some blank pieces of paper for use in keeping tab on various features can be fastened in a bunch by a string and attached to the board.
   • This principle is followed during Stage 1 in the use of a phonics handboard. The teacher uses the handboard to start with something familiar to the students, the spoken word.
3. 3

   A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly…

   A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.

   • A schoolmaster's etymology is a stupid affair, a handboard at the entrance of a cul-de-sac, or blind alley.
   • I am not one, Mr. Editor, who would discard the knowledge gained by vivisection or physiological medicine; they have their place, but at best can but serve as handboards to guide us on to grander truths, learned clinically.
   • At the foot of Whitehall a “handboard" advised vessels where to anchor.
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   1. 4

      A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand

      A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.

      • The scaffold was reached by a ladder projecting about a foot above the top of the scaffold , and then a handboard , fastened on one side , extended between one and two feet higher than the ladder .
      • Disclosed herein is a handboard assembly for securing a hand and forearm of a patient undergoing a carpal tunnel surgery.
   2. 5

      A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing…

      A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.

      • If the oar is lost past recovery, they attempt to jerk themselves upwards by striking the water with the handboard of the harpoon, or a knife, or even the palm of the hand; but this experiment rarely succeeds.
      • The weapon is in very general use at Point Barrow , and is always thrown from the boat with a handboard ( to be described below ) .
      • Their weapons are bows and arrows, lances and darts, which they throw like the Greenlanders to the distance of sixty yards by means of a little handboard.
   3. 6

      A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer

      A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.

      • Get the handboard and the trowel , each of us got that, Bancroft had one, too, and he lifted the stuff off from the board and give it up to us.
      • This is a small handboard used with a pointing trowel and its purpose is to support small amounts of pointing mortar ( figure 1.31 ) .
      • In these situations, the plasterer uses a floating or skimming trowel, a handboard (hawk) with which to repeatedly carry the plaster to the wall, and a 'board and stand' from which to feed the material onto the hawk.
   4. 7

      An artist's palette.

   5. 8

      A washboard.

      • If it does, add water in small quantities at a time, until the ley, when put upon the handboard, does not run down from the soap, but appears as it were just starting from the soap.
   6. 9

      A salver or tray for carrying items such as dishes.

      • Lady Caroline again called, "Davison," and Mrs. Davison replying she was coming, took up the handboard, and once more left Mary in darkness.
      • I have sent a waiter, or handboard, japanned with varnish made from this residuum, and the volatile oil above mentioned.
   7. 10

      A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.

      • Sides or skins finished by folding with grain side in and rubbing the surface together under pressure of an instrument known as a handboard .
   8. 11

      To bodysurf using a handboard.

   9. 12

      To finish leather using a handboard.

      • This is obtained by a method of handboarding instead of the usual process of embossing.
      • Comber and gill box apron leather is soft, mellow, and tough, tanned from steer hides, heavily stuffed, and usually handboarded or otherwise softened.
      • It is slightly handboarded to remove the dried-up chemicals.

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