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splashboard en · NOUN

Etymology

From splash + board.

Meanings

1. A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
   • Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168:
   • The old driver was hanging over the splash-board like some grotesque scarecrow, his arms dangling absurdly in front of him. 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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