tailboard
English
Etymology
tail + board
Noun
tailboard (plural tailboards)
- A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 171:
- 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.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
- The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.
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Translations
tailgate — see tailgate
Anagrams
- broadtail