Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building. See
roller , 1 .
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Examples
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He stood at a large roller-board and used chalk to draw the axis of a graph, labelling one 'x' and the other 'y'.
The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997
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Inasmuch as it would never do to put all the large pipes (because of their weight) at one end of the wind-chest, they were usually divided between the two ends and it became necessary to transfer the pull of the keys sideways, which was done by a series of _rollers_ called the _roller-board_.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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