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patchboard

noun

Etymology

From patch + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as patchboard — “patch + board”

Definitions

  1. A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing…

    A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing equipment, in which circuits are completed with cords on a matrix of connections.

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