Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A low tablelike chest of drawers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Whig and Low-churchman.
  • noun A chest of drawers supported on short legs. See high-boy, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun United States A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A low chest of drawers.
  • noun A type of semi-trailer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a low chest or table with drawers and supported on four legs

Etymologies

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From low +‎ boy.

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Examples

  • On the panel over the lowboy was a small painting, a foot broad and a foot and a half long.

    The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

  • When called last week, Craig said he had just issued a six-axle "lowboy" truck, among the heaviest on the road, a speeding ticket for going 71 mph in a 55 mph zone.

    unknown title 2009

  • I drove a lowboy truck with a Cat [Caterpillar] or a front loader on the trailer.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • People came and went, and Don pulled beer out of the lowboy behind the tasting bar and gave out excellent, hoppy California microbrews.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Within a decade or so, Crate & Barrel server racks won't seem any more exotic than lowboy cabinets for flat-panel TVs.

    Mr. Mogul's Dream House 2008

  • Killer market : a Deborah Knott mystery / Margaret Maron — A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan.

    2/25: New at the library this week 2006

  • Killer market : a Deborah Knott mystery / Margaret Maron — A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • I went back to the door, doused the light, and did a lowboy scan of the corridor.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

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