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  • noun Plural form of buckboard.

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Examples

  • He also complains about the 6000 buckboards for the colonels, thousands of saddles for the cavalry, and hundreds of airplane engines that were never used in the war.

    Mamas Don't Let your Babies grow up to be Soldiers! 2008

  • From miles around, folks rode into Canadian on horseback and in creaking buckboards.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • And yes, Susan, our friends abroad do seem to think we're still riding around in buckboards.

    Speaking of Bryan ... Frank Wilson 2007

  • Westmoreland County, did he feel once more identified with his surroundings; at the station he saw a star he knew, and a cold moon bright over Chesapeake Bay; he heard the rasping wheels of buckboards turning, the lovely fatuous voices, the sound of sluggish primeval rivers flowing softly under soft Indian names.

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • Two of the flat-bed mountain dwarf wag - ons were standing side-by-side, their buckboards pointed toward Flint; he saw no guards.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Already the outskirts of town were crowded with buckboards and gigs and carts, anchored like odd boats in a sea of salt grass.

    The Lightkeeper Wiggs, Susan 1997

  • Four or five generations ago, they said, the city had still been quite heavily populated and reasonably civilized, although the residents drove wagons and buckboards along the wide boulevards the Great Old Ones had constructed for their fabulous horseless vehicles.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • Two of the flat-bed mountain dwarf wag - ons were standing side-by-side, their buckboards pointed toward Flint; he saw no guards.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • When they rode into Blue Moon, the street was bulging with carriages and buckboards and the high-boxed, heavy-wheeled grain wagons.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • When they rode into Blue Moon, the street was bulging with carriages and buckboards and the high-boxed, heavy-wheeled grain wagons.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

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