buckboard

[buhk-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

1. a light, four-wheeled carriage in which a long elastic board or lattice frame is used in place of body and springs.

buckboard

/ ˈbʌkˌbɔːd /

noun

1. an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles

Word History and Origins

Origin of buckboard¹

1830–40, obsolete buck “body, holder” ( bucket ) + board

Example Sentences

But are we really expected to believe the Framers created an impeachment process with a hole so large you could ride a buckboard through it?

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As more immigrants headed west, flimflam men began selling “miracle” remedies from their buckboard wagons.

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Pa had the buckboard and Shirl, the biggest plow horse, waiting on the road.

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Climbing down ponderously from the wooden buckboard, he tossed Stella and Jojo each a piece of molasses taffy.

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“All he had was a buckboard. With the buckboard, by the time he got to Great Bend, he would have had mush,” Rus said.

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