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Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk
Answer for the clue "Writing board used on the lap as a table or desk ", 8 letters:
lapboard
Word definitions for lapboard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapboard \Lap"board`\, n. A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. writing board used on the lap as a table or desk
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A board held on the lap as a simple lap desk.
Usage examples of lapboard.
Her hands were on a padded lapboard, the fingers long, nails manicured and sbining.
The nails of her long fingers, which rested on a lapboard, were manicured and shining.
Olafson waited the fifteen seconds, and then did something to her lapboard that caused a series of aiming circles to be superimposed on the overhead dome.
The scribe sat upon the floor without comment, but he looked troubled as he placed a wooden lapboard upon his knee.
The chair included a lapboard with an imbedded touch screen that provided all of the fingertip controls he needed to monitor every section of the ship.
It had headrest and fingertip controls, lapboard, power swiveling so that the entire bridge was in view without effort, even a personal relief tube.
Not bothering to seat himself again, he pulled up the lapboard while hovering overhead, then typed in the six-digit string that would allow Dana to enter a new course into the navigation subsystem.
Baptiste took a last glance at the section report on his lapboard, then pushed it away and carefully stood up, feeling sluggish against the pull of gravity.
She was wearing a nightgown hitched up above her knees, wide-spread thighs supporting a lapboard and pad upon which she was writing intently.