rabbit board

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An authority responsible for the management and control of wild rabbits.

   • You speak of rabbit boards in the other colonies.[…]You have had nothing to do with the rabbit boards in Queensland?
   • Infested districts are proclaimed by the Governor, and thereupon a rabbit board shall be constituted to carry out the provisions of the Act.
2. 2

   A board on which a rabbit may be immobilised.

   • Rabbits are fastened upon rabbit-boards and anesthetized with a mixture of three parts of ether and one of alcohol.
   • The laboratory should be supplied with chemical work tables and sinks ; a fume chamber; large water bath for 40 and 100 degrees C.; dog and rabbit boards; analytical balance; scales weighting 0.01 gm. to 20 gm.;[…].
   • The animal is restrained on the rabbit board, with the level of the head slightly below the level of the heart, the neck region shaved with small animal clippers, and then palpated to locate the trachea.

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