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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ironing board
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alice watched her match the trouser creases and set them carefully on the ironing board.
▪ Dressing tables, bedside lights, linen and towels available, vacuum cleaner, iron and ironing board.
▪ Joe could see the end of an ironing board, and somebody moving around.
▪ She stood at the ironing board running the iron over her uniform blouse.
▪ Still, near a kettle; still, at the churn; still, at the tub and ironing board.
▪ The calendar spotlighted black inventors, including Sarah Boone, credited with inventing the ironing board.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironing board

Ironing \I"ron*ing\, n.

  1. The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

  2. The clothes ironed.

    Ironing board, a flat board, upon which clothes are laid while being ironed.

Wiktionary
ironing board

n. A long board, often covered with fabric and having on legs that are usually collapsible, on which one can iron clothes.

WordNet
ironing board

n. narrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes

Usage examples of "ironing board".

Something like a kettle flex could have been plugged into the nearest power point and the bare wires at the other end made to touch the metal of the ironing board.

The door swinging open, the ironing board falling down to the horizontal with a ratcheting sound, reminding him somehow of a guillotine, his wife crammed into the space beneath and in her mouth a rag that had been used to polish the furniture.

And in the middle of it all Amy stood over an ironing board using an iron that should have been in a museum.

On the ironing board, in plain view, there's a glass of some thing clear: gin.

I placed the shirt on the ironing board and explained the strategy: the yoke, followed by the collar, then the cuffs, the two sleeves, and finally the body of the garment.

Angry, she pulled a chair up behind Tisha and slammed her hand down on the ironing board.

Elmer says I'm like an ironing board with two buttons sewn on to tell you which the front is.

Nellie had only been fourteen then, so she'd had to stand on a box to be high enough for the ironing board, but when Terel returned she'd get down and get milk and cookies for her.