buckboard

[buhk-bawrd, -bohrd]

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noun

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

Origin of buckboard

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

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Related Words for buckboard

caravan, carriage, van, car, cart, chariot, lorry, coach, buggy, dray, caisson, wain, buckboard, pushcart, tram, schooner, camion, tumbril, barouche, fourgon

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Historical Examples of buckboard

Meredith said to Helen, gravely, as he handed her out of the buckboard.
The Gentleman From Indiana
Booth Tarkington
I suppose there is nothing for it but get out my buckboard and get back to Three Rivers.
One Day's Courtship
Robert Barr
I was keeping abreast of the wagon, in my buckboard, away to the south of it.
The Law-Breakers
Ridgwell Cullum
I abandoned the buckboard and cargo, and took to the saddle.
The Law-Breakers
Ridgwell Cullum
He doffed his prairie hat as the buckboard drew abreast of him.
The Night Riders
Ridgwell Cullum

British Dictionary definitions for buckboard

buckboard

noun

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

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Word Origin and History for buckboard

1839, "plank on wheels," from board (n.1) + buck "body of a cart or wagon" (1690s), perhaps representing a dialectal survival of Old English buc "belly, body, trunk"(see bucket). As a type of vehicle constructed this way, from 1874.