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tailboard

tailboard noun: a hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.

Noun

tailboard (plural tailboards)

  1. A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
    • She got one knee up under him and hurled him off, and was over the tail-board in a flash, landing on her feet like a cat, and panting hard, by the sudden release of a violent emotion.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171
    • The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Forms of tailboard

pluraltailboards

Origin of tailboard

From tail + board.

Questions about tailboard

What does tailboard mean?
Tailboard means a hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
What part of speech is tailboard?
Tailboard is a noun.
What is the plural of tailboard?
The plural of tailboard is tailboards.

Words near tailboard in the dictionary

  1. tailbases
  2. tailbeat
  3. tailbeats
  4. tailblock
  5. tailblocks
  6. tailboard
  7. tailboards
  8. tailbone
  9. tailbones
  10. tailboom
  11. tailbooms

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