lap-board

It was not an appetizing luncheon that that individual banged down upon the lap-board that was propped across the receding arms of the morris-chair to serve as a table.

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

Felicia moved easily, she got the chess men, went and brought back her lap-board and sat patiently at the bedside.

Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

The equipment of an operator on a car was quite simple consisting merely of a small lap-board, on which were mounted the key, coil, and buzzer, leaving room for telegraph blanks.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

The equipment of an operator on a car was quite simple consisting merely of a small lap-board, on which were mounted the key, coil, and buzzer, leaving room for telegraph blanks.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

But it was not a school -- it was only a Parlour; and there being a pupil more than there were accommodations, and Emmy Lou being the new-comer, her portion was a rocking-chair and a lap-board.

Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901

At home Emmy Lou cried with her head buried in Aunt Cordelia's new bolster sham; for how could she confess to Hattie and to Rosalie that it was a parlour and a lap-board?

Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901

The seamstress had left her sewing-chair out there the afternoon she finished Mary's dress, and it still stood there, with the lap-board beside it.

The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1897

He sat down, took up a lap-board, and upon it began to cut a piece of leather; but leaving off the work, gave himself up to deep thought.

The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

Miss Craydocke slipped her lap-board -- work and all -- under her bureau, upon the floor, for safety; and then with her quaint, queer expression, in which curiosity, pluckiness, and a foretaste of amusement mingled so as to drive out annoyance, pushed back her bolt, and presented herself to the demand of her visitor, much as an undaunted man might fling open his door at the call of a mob.

A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

After the simple meal — made richer by the addition of four of Neighbor Niles's rusks — was over, we took our places in the sitting-room, she with her lap-board, and I with “Sandford and Merton.”

John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself 1864