splashboard
Americannoun
-
a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of an open carriage or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc..
He threw his reins over the splashboard and descended to the road.
-
Nautical. washboard.
noun
-
a guard on a vehicle to protect people from splashing water, mud, etc
-
nautical another word for washboard
Etymology
Origin of splashboard
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again.
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Hume was so taken aback that he stood poised on the step of the vehicle and forgot to slip the reins into the catch on the splashboard.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
Polly sat on her trunk by the splashboard; and Tilly, crowded out, rode in on one of the cart-horses, a coloured bed-quilt pinned round her waist to protect her skirts.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
But the chase, if chase were given, was vain from the first: for Dapple tore along as though the devil himself sat behind the splashboard.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
His jacket was of velveteen, and he had large, iron-shod boots, which were perched upon the splashboard in front of him.
From Danger! and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
