Sc. and north. dial. Also laboard, law-board, etc. [? f. LAY v.1 Cf. G. legebrett, Du. legbord, board for laying something on.] The board on which tailors iron their seams. (Cf. lap-board, s.v. LAP sb.1 9.)
1804. Galloway, Luncarty, 57 (E. D. D.). His laboard gave, and gives, old bakers bread.
a. 1813. A. Wilson, Poems (1876), II. 44. As soon’s she reekt the sooty bield, Whare labrod he sat cockin’.
1829. Hogg, Sheph. Cal., I. 180. Afore I were a landless lady, I wad rather be a tailor’s lay board.
1867. Gregor, Banffs. Gloss., Lay-buird.
