# slipboard
## English
### Etymology

From slip +‎ board.

### Noun

slipboard (plural slipboards)
* A board sliding in grooves.
** 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:I ventured to draw back the slipboard on the roof, contrived on purpose to let in air.
** 1859, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia, Or A General Dictionary of Agriculture, page 757:When the slipboard is let down, a quantity of barley is allowed to pass into the drum-case by means of the rollers; and it is there retained under the impetuous action of the beaters as long as the feeder-in thinks proper; and when he considers it to be sufficiently rubbed and buffetted, he suddenly pulls up the slipboard, so as to allow the whole quantity of barley to be thrown, at one dash, upon the first shaker;
** 1860, John Donaldson, British Agriculture, page 512:When the broods are fully hatched, the young are carried with the mother to the cribs in a yard and shed, which shuts by night and opens by day in a door of slipboard, affording air and exercise with the proper shelter.
** 2005, Shirley W. Ekvall, Valli K. Ekvall, Jennifer Walberg-Woolfe, and Wendy Nehring, “Nutritional Assessment—All Levels and Ages”, in Shirley Walberg Ekvall, Valli K. Ekvall, editor, Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases and Developmental Disorders, page 44:height is measured using a flexible steel or plastic measuring tape attached to the wall or door frame; the child stands against the tape or stadiometer with the shoes removed and the heels, lower back, and shoulders touching the wall or door frame; lower a block of wood or slipboard and make firstm contact with the child's scalp.
** (UK, historical) A sign that slides into a frame on the front of a bus for displaying special messages.
*** 2016, Matthew Wharmby, The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated:Despite having transferred from Plumstead to the 25 on 15 January 2005, here is 23032 (LX03 HDZ) in October 2007 making a return visit south of the river, albeit in the Pall Mall view having to carry a slipboard.
*** 2019, Malcolm Batten, Wessex Buses 1970-1985: Mainland National Bus Company Fleets:Bristol LD6G 1432, en route to Lymington, carries a slipboard on its radiator stating 'Not on service for Bournemouth Corporation passengers'.
*** 2022, Jim Blake, London Transport Buses in the 1960s:The large slipboard under its canopy tells that minimum fares apply on this trunk route within the Kingston area, to protect it from 'short riders'.
** A type of fence consisting of panels or boards held between uprights that have grooves on either side to hold the edges of the two adjacent boards.
*** 1991, Chronicle of the Horse - Volume 54, Issues 14-26, page 13:Slipboard fence as low as $8.67 per 10 foot section.
*** 1998, The 1998. Garden Conservancy Open Days Directory, page 58:Continue .5 miles and look for a white slipboard fence on the right at the corner of Warson and Litzsinger Roads.
*** 2020, J. Warren Evans, Rhonda M. Hoffman, Jessica L. Petersen, The Horse, page 537:Slipboard fences combine some of the advantages of both board and post and rail fences and are very attractive and practical fences.
* A list of substitute workers that are available in a union-controlled business, listed in priority order and by the shift they would like to work.
** 1978, Bulletin of the International Typographical Union - Volumes 66-67, page 18:The parties agree that, on March 14, 1975, the slipboard was frozen. Extras and substitutes shall continue to be hired from the slipboard when needed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
** 1992, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 875:In response to Newsday's questions, Ferraujola explained that if Newsday needed a certain number of people to work after removal of the slipboard, it could call the union hall and they would be supplied.
** 2006, John M. Howells, Marion Dearman, Tramp Printers, page 57:An extremely important point is: all that was required to be available for work was to place one's name on the slipboard.