top-board

Updated: May 1, 2025

I up with the top-board, an' she were lying on her back, an' I turned un ovver with the brume-handle, an' 'twas her back was all covered with the plaster from 'twixt the lathin'. Yiss, I tal 'ee. An' under her head there lay, like, so's to say, a little pillow o' plaster druv up in front of her by raison of her slidin' along on her back. No cat niver went mousin' on her back, Lena.

Rudyard Kipling - Stalky & Co.

Then he sat, where Greenbank boys were fond of sitting, on the sloping top-board of a broad fence, and told his friend Bob of his eager desire to go to Port William. "I'd like to go, too," said Bob. "This is the last year's schooling I'm to have." "Don't you know any house, or any place, where we could keep 'bach' together?"

Edward Eggleston - The Hoosier School-boy