Meaning of handboard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
2. A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.
3. A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.
4. A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.
5. A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.
6. A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.
7. An artist's palette.
8. A washboard.
   obsolete
9. A salver or tray for carrying items such as dishes.
   obsolete
10. A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.

Examples

“The usual handboard is made of thin light wood such as plywood, about a foot long and nine inches wide, with a curved front, straight sides, and a sawn-off rear end.”

“"All I see him doing is riding this handboard," says Nellis.”

“In the 1930s, some people were riding small boards, about the size of a kickboard in a swimming pool. One guy came out with a handboard with a strap on it, but it never caught on. — Wally Froiseth. dec 3, 2007. The first handboard contests were held in 1969 by Chuck Shipman, who worked for the City and County of Honolulu as an ocean recreation specialist.”

“Villy focuses on the saucer pearl like a bodysurfer leaning into a handboard.”

“Having occasion for a writing handboard, such as could be bought in London for 2s. 6d. or less, I was charged 7s. 6d. for one in Montreal.”

“These forms can be fastened to a handboard by means of thumb tacks and some blank pieces of paper for use in keeping tab on various features can be fastened in a bunch by a string and attached to the board.”

“This principle is followed during Stage 1 in the use of a phonics handboard. The teacher uses the handboard to start with something familiar to the students, the spoken word.”

“He leaned his head close to his handboard and engaged in furious scribbling with his stylus, doing figures and checking results at a speed that suggested long practice.”

“On the wall behind him hangs a tablet or handboard on which is pasted an account of his legend and miracles ( Pl. 77).”

“A schoolmaster's etymology is a stupid affair, a handboard at the entrance of a cul-de-sac, or blind alley.”

“I am not one, Mr. Editor, who would discard the knowledge gained by vivisection or physiological medicine; they have their place, but at best can but serve as handboards to guide us on to grander truths, learned clinically.”

“At the foot of Whitehall a “handboard" advised vessels where to anchor.”

“Milestones were required to be placed on the side of the road, beginning at the distance of one mile west of the Schuylkill, and extending thence to the borough of Lancaster, on which the distance each stone was from the west bounds of Philadelphia, and handboards telling the distances to the nearest gates and turnpikes.”

“A German botanist gave 'Gandoge' as the locality of an American plant; a package sent by express to 'Sevaber' (an English name), and a letter posted to the town of 'Scur E Quss, Nu Yourck,' arrived safely; and I have seen a handboard directing the traveller to the English-named town of 'Bintgrof'.”

“The scaffold was reached by a ladder projecting about a foot above the top of the scaffold , and then a handboard , fastened on one side , extended between one and two feet higher than the ladder .”

“A short handboard may be required to limit wrist motion . If restraints are necessary they should be applied around the handboard, not the patient's wrist, as this could cause arterial pressure interference and increase the risk of catheter kinking or dislodgement.”

“Disclosed herein is a handboard assembly for securing a hand and forearm of a patient undergoing a carpal tunnel surgery.”

“The hand is slightly extended on a short handboard with the help of folded 4 × 4 sponges before sterile preparation and draping.”

“The “Paoloni, Appleyard, and Murrell System” consists of a vertical handboard attached to a horizontal level arm, which is attached to a tensile cord and load cell used to collect force data. Subjects grasp a coronally aligned handboard with the thumb on the side of the handboard nearest their body and the other four digits on the side farthest from their body, ensuring pronation of the forearm.”

“If the oar is lost past recovery, they attempt to jerk themselves upwards by striking the water with the handboard of the harpoon, or a knife, or even the palm of the hand; but this experiment rarely succeeds.”

“The weapon is in very general use at Point Barrow , and is always thrown from the boat with a handboard ( to be described below ) .”

“Their weapons are bows and arrows, lances and darts, which they throw like the Greenlanders to the distance of sixty yards by means of a little handboard.”

“Get the handboard and the trowel , each of us got that, Bancroft had one, too, and he lifted the stuff off from the board and give it up to us.”

“This is a small handboard used with a pointing trowel and its purpose is to support small amounts of pointing mortar ( figure 1.31 ) .”

“In these situations, the plasterer uses a floating or skimming trowel, a handboard (hawk) with which to repeatedly carry the plaster to the wall, and a 'board and stand' from which to feed the material onto the hawk.”

“Take a small quantity of White, and twice as much Vermillion and Lake, temper these with the flat of a Knife's blade upon your Pallet, or Handboard,, and use it for the deepest Carnation of the Face, adding moreover to a small part of it more white, and reserve that for a ligher Carnation.”

“If it does, add water in small quantities at a time, until the ley, when put upon the handboard, does not run down from the soap, but appears as it were just starting from the soap.”

“Lady Caroline again called, "Davison," and Mrs. Davison replying she was coming, took up the handboard, and once more left Mary in darkness.”

“I have sent a waiter, or handboard, japanned with varnish made from this residuum, and the volatile oil above mentioned.”

“In order to distinguish the ordinary kinds of knitted gloves from those which are formed out of the improved hosiery fabric, the patentee proposes to finish those made under his patent upon a hand-board, similar to that used in the finishing of leather gloves; whereby they will assume a fullness approaching to the form of the human hand, in contradistinction to the flat appearance produced by employing the flat hand-board.”

“Sides or skins finished by folding with grain side in and rubbing the surface together under pressure of an instrument known as a handboard .”

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