Blackboard
['blækbɔːd] or ['blækbɔrd]
Definition
(n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
Checker: Wade
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill tidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial security will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce.
Typist: Steven
Examples
- But why one should go out to dine with one's own daughter or sister, as if one's under-petticoat was a blackboard, I do NOT understand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The senses--especially the eye and ear--have to be employed to take in what the book, the map, the blackboard, and the teacher say. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I hurriedly copied it, and he sent it, requesting the agents to display it on the blackboards used for stating the arrival and departure of trains. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Noelle