† meat-board Obs.
[f. meat n. + board n.]
A table for food, a dining-table.
| c 1205 Lay. 3638 Alle þai mete-burdes [c 1275 mete-bordes] ibrustled mid golde. 1382 Wyclif Exod. xxv. 23 Thow shalt make a meet bord [Vulg. mensam] of the trees of Sichym. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 475 Þe wode is my mete borde [L. silvam pro mensa]. 1488 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 99, j mete-bord. 1572 Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903) I. 135 Ane metbuird with the treslis and furmis thairof. |