cutting-board

plural cutting-boards

1. alternativeAlternative form of cutting board.

   The end which goes into the smoker’s mouth is kneaded into shape, and the loose end gummed down with a touch of gum taraxacum. The other end is cut off square on a cutting-board, and your cigar is ready.

   1908 February 8, “A Visit to a Cigar Factory: Toronto Star Reporter Sees the Fragrant Weed Rolled Into Smokes. […]”, in The Toronto Daily Star, 16th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3

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   To be SOLD by AUCTION, By Meſſ. CLAYTON and BERTELS. On the Premiſes, To-morrow and Thurſday next, THE genuine Houſehold Furniture, Plate, Linen, China and Books, a Compting-houſe Desk, Cutting-board, &c. of Mr. ANTHONY MOLARD, Taylor, The Upper End of Berwick-ſtreet, Soho.

   1777 November 25, The Public Advertiser, number 13457, London: […] H. S. Woodfall, […], →OCLC, page [4], column 3

   Although Mr [John] McClelland follows strict hygiene procedures and has never had any problem with the quality of his meat, he has had many previous visits from these officials, demanding, for instance, that he should replace his wooden cutting-boards with plastic, then later demanding that these should once again be replaced by wood.

   1998 March 22, “Butchers face the chop”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,919, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1