letterboard

English

Etymology

letter +‎ board

Noun

letterboard (plural letterboards)

  1. A signboard for lettering or text.
    • 1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85:
      So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.
  2. A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      One of the patients, Leonard L., when he heard of L-DOPA, rapped on his letterboard with mixed enthusiasm and irony, 'Dopamine is Resurrectamine. Cotzias is the Chemical Messiah.'
  3. (printing, historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.
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