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Answer for the clue "Can be lowered for loading ", 9 letters:
tailboard

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Word definitions for tailboard in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading [syn: tailgate ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tailboard \Tail"board`\, n. The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The tractor was there with the trailer attached, its tailboard unfastened.

Usage examples of tailboard.

I heard somebody approach behind me, and the other Kapos at the tailboard straightened to attention, scraping their caps off.

Archers perched on the tailboards of wagons and on the box seats of coaches.

Stepping out onto the tailboard, she could see the flickering lights of small handlamps around the compound between the Mahlindi’s wagons and theirs and also at the edge of the trees and up at the road.

I was into that wagon in a twinkling, bawling to the driver to go like blazes, and blasting away over the tailboard with an Adams six-shooter in each fist.

He had never expected to see one of the pioneer Morris trucks, the first fuel-cell design to achieve commercial operating cost, full to the brim of children aged between nine and fifteen waving and grinning over the tailboard.

Two Cetniks, the ginger-bearded leader of the escort and another black-bearded man, jumped over the tailboard and moved at once into the protective covering of the forest.

We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load covered with wet canvas.

A second later the retractable tailboards slid back exposing in the rear of each vehicle, two three-point-nine multiple rocket batteries.

He walked hurriedly back to camp, splashed with mud by the long lines of grey motor trucks that were throbbing their way slowly through the main street, each with a yellow eye that lit up faintly the tailboards of the truck ahead.

Each of the twenty-two-foot wagons carried one spare wheel and axle suspended beneath the tailboards, plus sixty pounds of flour, three sacks of salt, eighty pounds of dried meat, thirty pounds of dried fruit and six barrels of water.