Crossword clues for splashboard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dashboard \Dash"board`\ (d[a^]sh"b[=o]rd`), n.
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
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(Naut.)
The float of a paddle wheel.
A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
an instrument panel beneath the front window of a motor vehicle (such as an automobile or truck), containing indicating gauges and dials, such as the speedometer and fuel gauges, and sometimes certain control knobs or other devices.
Wiktionary
n. A guard towards the front of a vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
WordNet
Usage examples of "splashboard".
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.
They rode in silence for the rest of the day, Elizabeth pushing with her feet against the splashboard until her knees ached.
Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book.
Get your weight right forward on the splashboard now that we are going uphill, nephew.
When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again.
As he gripped the leathers his more active comrade sprang forward and rested a bony hand upon the side of the splashboard while he looked keenly up with a pair of fierce blue eyes at the faces of the two travellers, the light beating full upon his own features.
Eisenhart was sitting on the seat of a one-horse fly, shor'boots propped on the splashboard, looking moodily off toward Callahan's church.
Akanah grabbed for the side board and seat back, while Luke clutched the steering arm in one hand and braced himself with a foot against the splashboards.