Possible Clues:

• Place for plates
• A place to store decomposed flesh
• It's sticking out that one is telling the sprite to be quiet
• Support for holding objects
• See from the foregoing where the book is?
• Where to set books
• Quiet little person wants place for books
• Coastal sandbank
• 'I was full two and forty Days making a Board for a long --' (Defoe)
• Mantel piece