work-board

“` ` That would be droll enough! '' cried the blacksmith, breaking out into such an uproar of laughter that Owen himself and the bell glasses on his work-board quivered in unison.”

The Artist of the Beautiful

“That would be droll enough!" cried the blacksmith, breaking out into such an uproar of laughter that Owen himself and the bell glasses on his work-board quivered in unison.”

Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories

“In all these manufactures the sole of the foot is used both by men and women as a work-board.”

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

“A broken one being given by a gentleman to an Indian, he instantly snatched up an oyster-shell, and converted it with his teeth into a tool with which he presently fashioned the spear, and rendered it fit for use: in performing this operation, the sole of his foot served him as a work-board.”

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

“The _Box-maker_, 1. smootheth _hewen Boards_, 2. with a _Plain_, 3. upon a _work-board_, 4.”

The Orbis Pictus