splashboard
English
Etymology
splash + board
Noun
splashboard (plural splashboards)
- A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- The old driver was hanging over the splash-board like some grotesque scarecrow, his arms dangling absurdly in front of him.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 168:
- 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.
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