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knifeboard en · NOUN

Etymology

From knife + board.

Meanings

1. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
2. (attributive, historical) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
   • Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
   • knifeboard seating
3. (broadly, historical) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.

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