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Western wagon
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buckboard
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Word definitions for buckboard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buckboard \Buck"board`\, n. A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-pulled wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A buckboard is a four- wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. The "buckboard" is the front-most board on the wagon that could act as both a footrest for the driver and protection for the driver from the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man with no teeth climbed into the buckboard for his second or third look. ▪ When he felt himself sicken, Gloverjumped off the buckboard and walked around for some air, which restored him.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, "plank on wheels," from board (n.1) + buck "body of a cart or wagon" (1690s), perhaps representing a dialectal survival of Old English buc "belly, body, trunk"(see bucket ). As a type of vehicle constructed this way, from 1874.
Usage examples of buckboard.
When I was done, I got up on the buckboard and looked down at Hibbert.
Swearing, I got back down off the buckboard, and, between the two of us, we piled the dog on the cookware.
Mary sat beside me on the hard buckboard seat, her head drooping with weariness.
I crawled under the seat with the blanket wrapped around me, Mary clucked her tongue and gave the reins a shake, and the buckboard was on the move again.
Mary would climb down from the buckboard and carry on long conversations in whispers with various apprehensive strangers in Greek.
The double-seated buckboard waiting in front had large yellow wooden walls.
She urged the old roan to a gallop and the buckboard began to rattle and sway.
They pounded over the prairie, Sophie clinging to the iron armrest, wondering if they would arrive before the buckboard disintegrated and the horse collapsed.
She jumped down from the buckboard and ran into the shack, moving with surprising agility for a woman so tall.
They were back at the Stevenson house, and as Miss Travers brought the buckboard to a halt, Sophie tried to bring the conversation back to what Baby had said.
Morgan smoothed his cowlick and straightened the collar on his best blue shirt as he sat in his buckboard gazing down the road.
Espirition, the Mexican, who had been sent forty miles in a buckboard from the Espinosa Ranch to fetch it, returned with a shrugging shoulder and hands empty except for a cigarette.
The Rogers girls were there in their new buckboard, and the Anchor-O outfit and the Green Valley folks--mostly women.
Corporal List sat on the buckboard, his switch snapping the dusty, sweat-runnelled backs of the pair of oxen labouring at their yokes.
He saw List, wrapped in sleep on the buckboard, trapped within his prison of dreams.