Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A structure that protects the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud.
- noun Nautical A screen on a boat to keep water from splashing onto the deck.
- noun A board for closing a spillway or sluice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A guard of wood, or an iron frame covered with leather, in front of a wheeled vehicle or a sleigh, to protect the occupants from the splashing of the horses' feet; a dash-board or dasher.
- noun A kind of screen raised above the deck-line or bulwark-rail, to prevent water from coming on deck owing to a low freeboard or a swell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called
dashboard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
guard towards the front of avehicle , to preventsplashing bymud orwater from the road.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side
- noun protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keeping his seat, of course) like the late lamented
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Jack Cardigan had broken a splashboard, so far as one could make out, and would not be
To Let 2004
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“What have you got in there?” asked Vassili of one waggoner who was dangling his legs lazily over the splashboard of his conveyance and flicking his whip about as he gazed at us with a stolid, vacant look; but he only made answer when we were too far off to catch what he said.
Boyhood 2003
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At the highest ecstacy of speed, Sunday turned round on the splashboard where he stood, and sticking his great grinning head out of the cab, with white hair whistling in the wind, he made a horrible face at his pursuers, like some colossal urchin.
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003
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On the other side of Trotsky´s narrow kitchen is a porcelain wash basin and lead splashboard over which a few ramshackle shelves display the same talavera crockery from Dolores Hidalgo we´d bought years ago to stock our own cocina.
Trotsky's Ghost 2001
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Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Polly sat on her trunk by the splashboard; and Tilly, crowded out, rode in on one of the cart-horses, a coloured bed-quilt pinned round her waist to protect her skirts.
Australia Felix 2003
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On the other side of Trotsky´s narrow kitchen is a porcelain wash basin and lead splashboard over which a few ramshackle shelves display the same talavera crockery from Dolores Hidalgo we´d bought years ago to stock our own cocina.
Trotsky's Ghost 2001
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Grange, and looking about him with great fear, and trembling for the appearance of this irrepressible "Spring-heel Jack," suddenly heard a loud noise over his head, and the next instant something descended with such force on his shoulders as to send his pipe flying over the splashboard, and himself nearly after it.
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An 'beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup,
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Various
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