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noun

Sounding-board n.

(Mus.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.

A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

pl. See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.

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Etymology of 'Sounding-board'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sounding-board" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been used for more than a quarter of a century to seeing old Dr. Gilman's gentle face under the familiar and faded dove of the sounding-board, to the deliberation of his walk, and the hesitation of his manner, the first impression of the Reverend John Hodder was somewhat startling. They felt that there should be a leisurely element in religion. He moved across the chancel with incredible swiftness, his white surplice ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... of the word 'God' in a pulpit; and will talk of infinity with a tongue that dangles from a skull that never reached in thought and thorough imagination two inches, or further than from his hand to his mouth, or from the vestry to the sounding-board of the pulpit. ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... the brain, by reason of its functional inactivity, vibrates little or not at all in its higher centres; it plays the part of a sounding-board at rest, capable of vibrating sympathetically under the influence of a similar board ...

— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... and goes up to her). The blood money of my daughter? To Beelzebub with thee, thou infamous bawd! Sooner will I vagabondize with my violin and fiddle for a bit of bread—sooner will I break to pieces my instrument and carry dung on the sounding-board than taste a mouthful earned by my only child at the price of her soul and future happiness. Give up your cursed coffee and snuff-taking, and there will be no need to carry your daughter's face to market. I have always had my bellyful and a good shirt to my back before this confounded scamp ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller