tailboard

[teyl-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

1. the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.

tailboard

/ ˈteɪlˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a board at the rear of a lorry, wagon, etc, that can be removed or let down on a hinge

Word History and Origins

Origin of tailboard¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; tail ¹ + board

Example Sentences

The doors were shut, but he jumped onto the tailboard on the back.

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By the time it hit the tailboard at the back of a truck, it was doing 30 or 40mph.

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We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load covered with wet canvas.

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Girls, the next grade we come to, you three jump out and wait for Hepsy to start on her way, then instantly climb up on the tailboard and sit there.

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To find it we have only to draw a line upwards through the two stars in the tailboard of the waggon and on into space.

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