ˈshop-board
[f. shop n. + board n.1]
1. A counter or table upon which a tradesman's business is transacted or upon which his goods are exposed for sale.
| 1524–5 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 328 Paid for a shopp borde in partriches shopp in Estchepe, vj s viij d. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. iii. 345 When all these bookes of Exhortations and Catechismes, lie moulding on thy shop⁓board. 1705 Dunton Life & Errors (1818) I. vi. 72 He may starve behind his Shop-board, for want of subsistence. 1861 Sala Dutch Pict. xxi. 233 On every merchant's shopboard similar heaps..are tumbling out of similar sacks. |
2. A table or raised platform upon which tailors sit when sewing.
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 412 One seeing all sortes of his shreddes, would thinke he had robd a taylors shop boord. 1599 Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday iv. ii. (1610) G 1 b, Enter Hodge at his shop boord, Rafe, Firke, Hans, and a boy at worke. 1762 Foote Orators ii. (1780) 46 One day as I was sitting cross-legged on my shop-board,..I felt the spirit within me moving. 1837 Hawthorne Twice-told T., Toll-gatherer's Day, A dashingly dressed gentleman..from a tailor's shop-board. |
3. attrib.
| a 1658 Cleveland Puritan iii, With Shop-board Breeding and Intrusion. |