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Definition of Drawing board
1. Noun. A smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings.
Definition of Drawing board
1. Noun. A plane wooden construction or table to which paper can be fastened for drawing purposes. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Used to refer to the planning stage of a project as in: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing Board
Literary usage of Drawing board
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Мам. HIGGINS' drawing board and Library Mucilage A norel semi-fluid ... drawing board ..."
2. A Treatise on Surveying, Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Drawing.Board Protractor. Such a divided circle a8 has just been described, or
a circular protractor, may be placed on a drawing.board near its center, ..."
3. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"Preparation of the Paper and the Plain Drawing-Board.—For some purposes the paper
might be simply fastened along its edges with thumb-tacks to a flat smooth ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie, Cady Staley (1897)
"Drawing.Board Protractor. Such a divided circle as has just been described, or
a circular protractor, may be placed on a drawing.board near it* center, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"drawing board. A board especially prepared with squared edges and flat smooth
surface to receive the paper or linen upon which a drawing is to be made. ..."
6. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"For example, set the mirror at 35° and use a horizontal drawing board. With a
pencil make dots at the corners of some of the squares,, and then with a ..."
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