Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bread-board, 1.

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Examples

  • When the mother was dead and buried, the neighbors, as they had need, borrowed now the kneading-trough, now the rolling-board; and because they knew that the owners were very poor, they made them a cake, which Dusolino and

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • She owned nothing valuable in the world but three things: a kneading-trough, a rolling-board, and a cat.

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • Dusolino, her eldest son, the kneading-trough, to Tesifone the rolling-board, and to Constantine the cat.

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • It was empty; and toward her rolling-board, where she had left a pan of rich pie-crust, with which she was intending to cover her thanksgiving pies.

    Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858

  • "Edson's dog has eat up six chickens, a cream-pot, a rolling-board, pie-crust, and all!" exclaimed Mrs. Mumbles, with a frantic air, as she fell into her husband's outstretched arms, wholly unmindful of the laughter her appearance and words had excited among her good man's customers.

    Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858

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