lay-board Sc. and north. dial.
Also laboard, law-board, etc.
[? f. lay v.1 Cf. G. legebrett, Du. legbord, board for laying something on.]
The board on which tailors iron their seams. (Cf. lap-board, s.v. lap n.1 9.)
| 1804 Galloway Luncarty 57 (E.D.D.) His laboard gave, and gives, old bakers bread. a 1813 A. Wilson Poems (1876) II. 44 As soon's she reekt the sooty bield, Whare labrod he sat cockin'. 1829 Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. 180 Afore I were a landless lady, I wad rather be a tailor's lay board. 1867 Gregor Banffs. Gloss., Lay-buird. |