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tailboard
[ teyl-bawrd, -bohrd ]
noun
- the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
tailboard
/ ˈteɪlˌbɔːd /
noun
- a board at the rear of a lorry, wagon, etc, that can be removed or let down on a hinge
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tailboard1
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Example Sentences
There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could.
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The coachman had discovered his unlawful presence on the tailboard and had reached him with just the tip end of his whip.
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She came to me out of the rolling dust of an emigrant wagon, behind whose tailboard she was gravely trotting.
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Her eyes strayed from the tailboard of the wagon on which she stood, over the scene around her.
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The kerosene lantern hanging over the tailboard cast its glow for no great distance.
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