whimsyboardt (hwimzibord)

A board or tray on which different objects were carried about for sale. I am sometimes a small retainer to a billiard-table, and sometimes, when the master of it is sick, earn a penny by a whimsy - board . Tom Brown , Works, II. 17. (Davies.) Then pippins did in wheel-barrows abound, And oranges in whimsey - boards went round; Be Hoy first found it troublesome to bawl, And therefore plac'd her cherries on a stall. W. King, Art of Cookery, 1. 342.