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
“All he had was a buckboard. With the buckboard, by the time he got to Great Bend, he would have had mush,” Rus said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
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
The two men on the seat of the buckboard got down and stood either side of it.
From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2015
She dropped down from a buckboard and tied her old mule to the rail.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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