lapboard

• “Height of the lapboard is usually the same as for armrests.”

  Chapter 7

• “Last, but not least, there's the lapboard my grandfather made for my mother when she was 8 1926.”

  The Old Drawing Table

• “Baptiste took a last glance at the section report on his lapboard, then pushed it away and carefully stood up, feeling sluggish against the pull of gravity.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “Not bothering to seat himself again, he pulled up the lapboard while hovering overhead, then typed in the six-digit string that would allow Dana to enter a new course into the navigation subsystem.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “He had to search for the belt straps that held him in place, and it was another minute before he remembered how to open the lapboard.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of DUCES TECUM.”

  Ulysses

• “It had just reached the God-will-it-ever-burn stage, with smoke billowing over the lapboard fence into the neighbour's yard.”

  Some by Fire

• “Returning to his Morris chair and the redoubtable lapboard astride it, Grey resumed being the most successful and popular author of his age.”

  Zane Grey, Romancing the West

• “Inevitably, however, Grey turned to his writing duties, which he performed on a rugged lapboard that rested on the arms of a comfortable Morris chair.”

  Zane Grey, Romancing the West

• “She was wearing a nightgown hitched up above her knees, wide-spread thighs supporting a lapboard and pad upon which she was writing intently.”

  Will

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