ˈmoulding-board
[moulding vbl. n.2]
1. Baking. A board on which dough or paste is kneaded and shaped.
| 1327 Munim. Gildh. Lond. (Rolls) III. 416 Quamdam tabulam suam, quæ vocatur ‘moldingborde’. 1450 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 144 Item in brasina..unum moldyng bord. 1534 Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock 1866) 189 Item a mele seve, a moldynge boorde. 1612 in Antiquary Jan. (1906) 29 In the Kytchin..a mouldinge boorde. 1688 [see moulding-table s.v. moulding vbl. n.2 4]. 1841 Guide to Trade, Baker 44 After the dough is well broken..it is put on the moulding board, which is placed near the mouth of the oven. 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xiii, Rachel now took down a snowy moulding-board, and..proceeded quietly to make up some biscuits. |
2. A board on which bricks are moulded.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. ix. 395 A Brickmakers Moulding Board, with the Tub by the side of it. |
3. Founding. The board on which the pattern for a mould is laid.
| 1882 Ogilvie. 1888 Lockwood Gloss. Mech. Engin. |