[WRITING vbl. sb. 12 e + BOARD sb.] A board on which to rest the paper while writing.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 534. Wrytynge borde, pluteum.
1648. Hexham, II. Een Schrijf-berdt, a Writing board.
1773. Noorthouck, New Hist. London, 619. The writing school … contains long writing boards … to sit and write upon.
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 630. Underneath this writing-board is a space for papers.
