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 bycompressing layers ofpaper together anddrying them.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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I only buy steel shelves or real wood now. shudders ... pressboard.
No more modular furniture, ever! A photo essay in real time 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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When I unwrapped it, I saw three pressboard books.
Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010
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