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teaboard

teaboard noun: a tea tray.

Noun

teaboard (plural teaboards)

  1. (dated) A tea tray.
    • I remember, for instance, to have remarked in one of the rooms several small tables and teaboards, ornamented with some good copies of engravings, executed and varnished over at the manufactory of Ekaterinabourg.1827, Autobiography, A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published (volume 10, part 2, page 73)
    • He had a large level countenance, like a teaboard: the original flatness of his nose not having (contrary to John's theory) preserved it from a further depression, the result of one of his many battles.1867, Henry Spicer, Bound to Please, volume 2, number 288, page 94

Forms of teaboard

pluralteaboards
alternative formtea board
alternative formtea-board

Origin of teaboard

From tea + board.

Questions about teaboard

What does teaboard mean?
Teaboard means a tea tray.
What part of speech is teaboard?
Teaboard is a noun.
What is the plural of teaboard?
The plural of teaboard is teaboards.

Words near teaboard in the dictionary

  1. teaballs
  2. teabell
  3. teabells
  4. teaberries
  5. teaberry
  6. teaboard
  7. teaboards
  8. teaboo
  9. teaboos
  10. teabowl
  11. teabowls

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