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shopboard

shopboard noun: a tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.

Noun

shopboard (plural shopboards)

  1. (historical) A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
  2. (historical) A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work.
    • [N]or is there any place to let your legs hang down in, passengers sitting upon a platform like tailors on their shopboard.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206

Forms of shopboard

pluralshopboards

Origin of shopboard

From shop + board.

Questions about shopboard

What does shopboard mean?
Shopboard means a tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
What part of speech is shopboard?
Shopboard is a noun.
What is the plural of shopboard?
The plural of shopboard is shopboards.

Words near shopboard in the dictionary

  1. shopaholic
  2. shopaholics
  3. shopaholism
  4. shopathon
  5. shopathons
  6. shopboard
  7. shopboards
  8. shopbook
  9. shopbooks
  10. shopbot
  11. shopbots

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