Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A board upon which to knead, roll, or mold flour-mixtures; a kneading-board: a molding-board; a rolling-board.
  • noun A board upon which bread is cut on the table during the serving of a meal.

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Examples

  • Turn it onto the bread-board, and spread it out to the thickness of two fingers.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • Then turn the mixture onto the bread-board, which has been dampened; spread it out to the thickness of a finger.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • Turn out on a damp towel on a bread-board, cover the top with jelly, and roll up while warm.

    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

  • Take one cup of flour, and mix on the bread-board with the potatoes until they form a paste.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

  • Conwell's thoughts went beyond his plow furrow, Miranda's further than her bread-board; and so the little home had an atmosphere of earnest thought and purpose that clothed the uncarpeted floors and bare walls with dignity and beauty.

    Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr

  • To make jelly roll, lay on bread-board, spread with jelly and roll.

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  • The bread-board, dusty and unused, leaned against the flour barrel, the little line above it where the dishtowels should hang sagged under the weight of

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • He got him his mother's bread-board and a pencil and an ordinary school ruler, and with these made a drawing of the ice-boat as he thought the boat should be.

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  • He set the heavy cream jar on the table and faced Elizabeth, who was kneading the bread on the big bread-board which rested on the top of the flour barrel.

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • Then turn it out onto the bread-board; it should come out whole in a mold.

    Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

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