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  • He reaches forward and pulls the nameboard from the open glove compartment.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • He reaches forward and pulls the nameboard from the open glove compartment.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • A second video survey of wrecage on the seabed 13 miles west-south-west of Dassen Island found a section of a nameboard with the letter "S" and a firehose box with Chinese script.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The gates themselves lay flat on the lawn, one of them still pathetically bearing a neat painted nameboard.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • Although it has a nameboard and appears in the National Rail Timetable, it has not been served since 2004, when the footbridge was taken down.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • On his desk beside the nameboard that tells you he is director of marching bands at Howard University in Washington DC, John Newson keeps a miniature bale of cotton.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

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  • A board fitted across the back of the keyboard on a piano or similar instrument that usually bears the maker's name. (Citation on reveneered).

    October 4, 2008