shopboard

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
 * 2)  A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work.
 * 3) * 1808–10,, 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.