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buckboard

[buhk-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈbʌkˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /




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They’d flocked in autos, surreys, and buckboard wagons to bid their boys farewell.

From Slate ● May 16, 2020

He toiled as a lawyer, traveling across the plains in a buckboard wagon, often working for the railroads, once having to sue for his fee because the company superintendent refused to pay it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2017

Lewis said the children of her great-grandparents, George and Mary Slagle, would take the horse and buckboard to school from their homestead.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2016

The two men on the seat of the buckboard got down and stood either side of it.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2015

One afternoon he harnessed his draft horses to a buckboard and took Joe upriver, hunting for cedar.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown


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