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n. (running board English)
Usage examples of "running boards".
And so, for Novemberly reasons, life, for all the crush of smelly overcoats, is more tolerable inside the packjammed car than on the rounded roof, on the jangling bumpers, or on running boards that have to be reconquered at every station.
Of those forty-two computers, about twenty-five actually were running boards.
There were Model-Ts on the street, a Pierce-Arrow, Chevrolets with running boards.
It had a huge cab, painted bright red, wide running boards, and an electric starter, but if the starter ever failed, it could be cranked—.
They tied them to the running boards and carried water in buckets to fill them.
It was the old-style model with running boards and exposed radiator-front, and although New York is really no place to own a car, Kate had this because it just exactly fitted into a narrow area way beside her shop if she illegally drove up over the curb.
Now the black dream-mobile, which had running boards and a spare-tire well on the trunk, gathered speed as it cruised southward on Jefferson Street, which would not be Jefferson now but a street in Chicago, South Dearborn or South Clark.
The girls napped on running boards, or dipped to get a tire iron out of the trunk.
Even the white Land Cruiser was up to its black running boards in snow and wore rounded cornices and caps on its hood and windshield.
We packed it in layers, with the overflow hanging on the running boards.
The coachwork is painted a deep multicolored silver, and the fenders and running boards are painted black.
They proceeded toward an intersection, bouncing when the wheels hit potholes and splattered muddy water up on the running boards.