slipboard

Example Sentences

• "I ventured to draw back the slipboard on the roof, contrived on purpose to let in air."
• "When the slipboard is let down, a quantity of barley is allowed to pass into the drum-case by means of the rollers; and it is there retained under the impetuous action of the beaters as long as the feeder-in thinks proper; and when he considers it to be sufficiently rubbed and buffetted, he suddenly pulls up the slipboard, so as to allow the whole quantity of barley to be thrown, at one dash, upon the first shaker;"
• "When the broods are fully hatched, the young are carried with the mother to the cribs in a yard and shed, which shuts by night and opens by day in a door of slipboard, affording air and exercise with the proper shelter."
• "height is measured using a flexible steel or plastic measuring tape attached to the wall or door frame; the child stands against the tape or stadiometer with the shoes removed and the heels, lower back, and shoulders touching the wall or door frame; lower a block of wood or slipboard and make firstm contact with the child's scalp."
• "Despite having transferred from Plumstead to the 25 on 15 January 2005, here is 23032 (LX03 HDZ) in October 2007 making a return visit south of the river, albeit in the Pall Mall view having to carry a slipboard."
• "Bristol LD6G 1432, en route to Lymington, carries a slipboard on its radiator stating 'Not on service for Bournemouth Corporation passengers'."