different between shipboard vs shopboard

English

ship +? board

shipboard (not comparable)

shipboard (plural shipboards)

From shop +? board.

shopboard (plural shopboards)

(now historical) A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed. [from 16th c.]
(now historical) A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work. [from 16th c.]
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206:
  [N]or is there any place to let your legs hang down in, passengers sitting upon a platform like tailors on their shopboard.

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