splashboard
Americannoun
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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.
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Nautical. washboard.
noun
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a guard on a vehicle to protect people from splashing water, mud, etc
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nautical another word for washboard
Etymology
Origin of splashboard
Example Sentences
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There is a splashboard, an unusual luxury in carriages of this kind.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
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
I have a bag close at hand on the splashboard, where I keep the road-book or guide, the map of the county through which I am passing, and my pens, ink, pencils, and note-books.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Sir Claude poked his stick at the splashboard of the cab.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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