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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.

RELATED WORDS

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

Origin of buckboard

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

  • Meredith said to Helen, gravely, as he handed her out of the buckboard.

  • I suppose there is nothing for it but get out my buckboard and get back to Three Rivers.

  • 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
n.

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.

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