writing board

1. 1.

   work surface consisting of a wide lightweight board that can be placed across the lap and used for writing

   Broaderwork surface

   Narrowerclipboardlapboard

Questions about writing board

What does writing board mean?

writing board means "work surface consisting of a wide lightweight board that can be placed across the lap and used for writing".

Is writing board a common word?

writing board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.