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knifeboard

knifeboard noun: a board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

knifeboard: a board on which knives are cleaned or polished
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Noun

knifeboard (plural knifeboards)

  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.
    • knifeboard seating
    • Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll
      On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
  3. (broadly, historical) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.

Forms of knifeboard

pluralknifeboards

Origin of knifeboard

From knife + board.

Questions about knifeboard

What does knifeboard mean?
Knifeboard means a board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
What part of speech is knifeboard?
Knifeboard is a noun.
What is the plural of knifeboard?
The plural of knifeboard is knifeboards.

Words near knifeboard in the dictionary

  1. knife-rests
  2. knife-twister
  3. knife-twisters
  4. knifeblade
  5. knifeblades
  6. knifeboard
  7. knifeboards
  8. knifecraft
  9. knifecrime
  10. knifecrimed
  11. knifecrimes

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