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running board

running board noun: a narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.

running board: a narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars
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Noun

running board (plural running boards)

  1. A narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.
    • One of the "locomotors", a 72 h.p. machine for light yard shunting which can be driven by a shunter from the running board. [A long step on the side just above rail level]1962 March, “Dutch diesel and electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 173, photo caption
  2. A narrow footway above the driving wheels of some steam locomotives, and along the sides of some diesel locomotives.

running board meaning in Tamil

running board in Tamil

நடைபலகை

Forms of running board

pluralrunning boards

Questions about running board

What does running board mean?
Running board means a narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.
What is running board in Tamil?
Running board in Tamil is நடைபலகை. See Running board meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is running board?
Running board is a noun.
What is the plural of running board?
The plural of running board is running boards.

Words near running board in the dictionary

  1. running battles
  2. running before
  3. running behind
  4. running block
  5. running blocks
  6. running board
  7. running boards
  8. running by
  9. running circles around
  10. running commentaries
  11. running commentary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running board (page history and authors); running board (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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