buckboard
buckboard noun: a simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
Noun
buckboard (plural buckboards)
- A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
- In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County.1918, Sinclair Lewis, “Afterglow”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, published 1962, pages 79–80
- […] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?"
"On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 85
Forms of buckboard
| plural | buckboards |
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Origin of buckboard
From buck + board.
Questions about buckboard
- What does buckboard mean?
- Buckboard means a simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
- What part of speech is buckboard?
- Buckboard is a noun.
- What is the plural of buckboard?
- The plural of buckboard is buckboards.
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