Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A heavy glazed paper or pasteboard used especially to cover the platen or cylinder of a printing press.
  • noun A small ironing board.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Millboard; pasteboard.
  • noun An ironing-board; a board used in pressing cloth.
  • noun plural See press-boards.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A board made by compressing layers of paper together and drying them.

Etymologies

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press +‎ board

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Examples

  • I know there’s a similar thing made with pressboard, which is, i think what Romero uses on the Fish Camp and press-board typically uses formaldehyde.

    PREFAB FRIDAY: Sustain miniHOME | Inhabitat 2006

  • I've got mine mounted on a 2x3 piece of pressboard, it's easy to set up and it has lasted me a long time.

    I have a Mec Jr 600 reloader but don't have a bench to mount it to. 2009

  • I only buy steel shelves or real wood now. shudders ... pressboard.

    No more modular furniture, ever! A photo essay in real time 2009

  • And I'm sticking to that, I'll read with the lamps on the floor if I have too! although, I saw a piece from IKEA that wasn't pressboard .......

    No more modular furniture, ever! A photo essay in real time 2009

  • I've got mine mounted on a 2x3 piece of pressboard, it's easy to set up and it has lasted me a long time.

    I have a Mec Jr 600 reloader but don't have a bench to mount it to. 2009

  • Painted-shut windows had been forced open, allowing gray light to ribbon through bent blinds, over pressboard shelves warping under the weight of books.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

  • Painted-shut windows had been forced open, allowing gray light to ribbon through bent blinds, over pressboard shelves warping under the weight of books.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

  • Wrapping a single landscape around three walls, arranging the perspective so that foreground trees disappear into the ceiling-line, and even popping the foregrounded foliage out of the wall slightly by forming it out of painted, jigsawed pieces of pressboard, all seem attempts to create an illusion.

    galleon trade edition 2008

  • Painted-shut windows had been forced open, allowing gray light to ribbon through bent blinds, over pressboard shelves warping under the weight of books.

    Sparks Laura Bickle 2010

  • When I unwrapped it, I saw three pressboard books.

    Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

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