bed-board

I threw him on the bed and broke his leg over the bed-board.

Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

The hand must be at rest, carried in a sling during the day and slung over the head to the bed-board at night.

The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

It happened thus: he was going his rounds through the cars with some commodities for sale, and coming to a party who were at SEVEN-UP or CASCINO (our two games), upon a bed-board, slung down a cigar-box in the middle of the cards, knocking one man's hand to the floor.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

Their charge began with twenty-five cents a cushion, but fell, before the train went on again, to fifteen, with the bed-board gratis, or less than one-fifth of what I had paid for mine at the Transfer.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

Every Saturday morning, I would partake in something of a ritual of my own as I would set up a wooden bed-board on the dinner table to play my "Game of the Week".

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