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tailboards

tailboards is the plural of tailboard.

Meaning of tailboard

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

Questions about tailboards

What is tailboards the plural of?
Tailboards is the plural of tailboard.

Words near tailboards in the dictionary

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

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