buckboard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of buckboard
Example Sentences
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They’d flocked in autos, surreys, and buckboard wagons to bid their boys farewell.
From Slate • May 16, 2020
He toiled as a lawyer, traveling across the plains in a buckboard wagon, often working for the railroads, once having to sue for his fee because the company superintendent refused to pay it.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2017
A buckboard from his great-grandfather’s livery stable looks down from the loft, and a pair of great-grandpa’s chaps hang from a peg in the corner, alongside his dad’s Filson chore coat and battered Stetson.
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2015
The two men on the seat of the buckboard got down and stood either side of it.
From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2015
Dropping the gunny sack in the buckboard, Grandpa reached in the basket again and said, “Well, what do you know!”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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