chopping-board

plural chopping-boards

1. alternativeAlternative form of chopping board.

   “When I was captured by the American forces, I was like a fish on a chopping-board,” [Nguyen Quang] Hung said last week. “They could have either killed or spared me.”

   2013 July 1, Mike Ives, “Humerus reunion: Doctor returns Vietnamese vet’s arm”, in Park City Daily News, year 158, number 182, Bowling Green, Ky., →OCLC, page 7A, columns 4–5

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   [T]he woman held it under the tap, and then wiped it with the same cloth she cleaned out the copper with, the verdigris from which adhered to the chopping-board, and from that to the suet with which the pudding was made.

   1825 October 4, The Morning Post, number 17,095, London, →OCLC, page [3], column 5

   Indeed, I became so addicted to this delightful nectar that I mastered the art of racking my childlike body with bogus spasms of croup in the hope of persuading her to set to with the onion and the chopping-board.

   2013 October 25, Keith Newbery, “This Island Life: If it works for you – and tastes good – why not?”, in Isle of Wight County Press, Newport, Isle of Wight, →ISSN, →OCLC, Weekender section, page 2, columns 1–2