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Drawing board   /drˈɔɪŋ bɔrd/   Listen
Drawing board

noun
1.
A smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings.  Synonym: drafting board.





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"Drawing board" Quotes from Famous Books



... carry the united movements of each pair of pendulums to a light square of wood, suspended by a spring, and bearing a pen. The pen is thus controlled by the combined movement of the four pendulums, and this movement is registered on a drawing board by the pen. There is no limit, theoretically, to the number of pendulums that can be combined in this manner. The movements are rectilinear, but two rectilinear vibrations of equal amplitude acting at right angles to each other ...
— Thought-Forms • Annie Besant
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... thousand credits isn't just detail; but let it pass. It's already done. Anyway, on the drawing board she's the fastest thing in the galaxy." He smiled. "If she lives up to expectations, she'll make your ship look like an old freighter. We've got four million sunk in her so far, so she'd better ...
— Faithfully Yours • Lou Tabakow
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... gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime. ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
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... slender, a head taller than the dumpy Mrs. Morgan. The dark violet eyes and the delicate spiritual face she owed to her Celtic ancestors, the grace of her movements, no less than the perfect hands that rested on the drawing board, ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
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... observed in coloring and shading; colored drawings to be glued around their edges to the drawing board; to maintain an even shade of ...
— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose
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