Strasse; lighted by the single flicker of an oil lamp, with the workboard for a writing-desk, let me endeavour to collect some few scattered details about the German workmen in Hamburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

It is not likely he ever used the hammer on hot steel, but he was when young, and working with father, accounted an excellent penknife grinder; Skinner being a scissors grinder, and Levesley a workboard hand for the same master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced] Reference

Sometimes we worked till mid-day, but that was a rarity; for our ordinary day’s labour was thirteen hours, with scarcely a blink of rest at meal-times, and often we had not stirred from the house during the whole week, but had worn out the monotonous hours between bed and workboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference