scaleboard

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English

Etymology

From scale +‎ board.

Noun

scaleboard (plural scaleboards)

  1. (obsolete, printing) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
    • 1808, Caleb Stower, The Compositor's and Pressman's Guide to the Art of Printing:
      During the time it is working down , the head and winter will require an additional scaleboard now and then , which will be ascertained by observing whether the pull produces an adequate impression
  2. (obsolete) A thin veneer or leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture etc.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scaleboard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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