▪ I. ˈscale-board1
[f. scale n.2 + board n.2 Cf. scabbard n.3]
Thin board used for hat-boxes, silk hats, veneer, etc., and by printers for justifying.
| 1711 Act 10 Anne c. 18 §62 To export such Paper Pastboard Mildboard or Scaleboard. 1821 J. Smyth Pract. Customs (ed. 2) 202 Scaleboards, from Germany, are packed in Bundles, weighing 50 at each Draught. 1823 Crabbe Technol. Dict. s.v. Printing, To the furniture belong also scale-boards. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Scale-board, in printing,..commonly pronounced scab{p}-board. 1874 Spon's Dict. Engin. viii. 3091 In sawing veneers or scale-boards. |
| attrib. 1846 [see scabbard n.3 b]. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Scaleboard-plane, one for planing off wide chips, for fruit, hat, and bonnet boxes and other objects. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 81 Scaleboard Box Maker. |
▪ II. ˈscale-board2
[f. scale n.1 + board n.2]
A board used as one of the pans of a pair of scales.
| 1876 Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict., Beam-Scale, a simple lever, the arms of which are equal. At the end of each arm a scale board is suspended by chains. |
▪ III. ˈscale-board3
[First element uncertain.]
(See quot.)
| 1891 Min. Evid. Labour Comm. Group B. (1892) I. 54/2 Copper ore..is brought up on scale-boards or shoots. Ibid. Gloss., Scaleboard, a kind of large shovel, made of planks, which serves as a shoot and guide, down which goods are slid from ship to quay. |