Word.ws English Dictionary

splashboard

splashboard noun: a guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.

Noun

splashboard (plural splashboards)

  1. A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of splashboard

pluralsplashboards

Origin of splashboard

From splash + board.

Questions about splashboard

What does splashboard mean?
Splashboard means a guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
What part of speech is splashboard?
Splashboard is a noun.
What is the plural of splashboard?
The plural of splashboard is splashboards.

Words near splashboard in the dictionary

  1. splash-proof
  2. splashable
  3. splashback
  4. splashbacks
  5. splashball
  6. splashboard
  7. splashboards
  8. splashdown
  9. splashdowns
  10. splashed
  11. splashed about

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: splashboard (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “splashboard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/splashboard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.