cooling board

American  

noun

South Midland and Southern U.S. Older Use.

1. a plank for laying out a corpse.

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Etymology

Origin of cooling board

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

A kitchen table can, in the throes of a yellow-fever outbreak, Become a cooling board holding the boss wife’s body.

From The New Yorker

So I went to my dead mother where she was on de cooling board and brushed my dress and said, 'Look at my pretty dress.'

From Project Gutenberg

For a young woman to see a cooling board in her dreams, foretells sickness and quarrels with her lover.

From Project Gutenberg

To dream of some living person as dead and rising up from a cooling board, denotes she will be indirectly connected with that person in some trouble, but will find out that things will work out satisfactorily.

From Project Gutenberg

To see her brother, who has long since been dead, rising from a cooling board, warns her of complications which may be averted if she puts forth the proper will and energy in struggling against them.

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