splashboard

Example Sentences

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Kitty, greatly relieved, was fastening the reins to the splashboard before getting down to light the lamps, when a man appeared around the corner of the house, and came towards her.

From Kitty Trenire by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

First, there was an old lumbering family volante, a sort of gig, with four posts or uprights supporting a canopy covered with leather, and with a high dash—iron or splashboard in front.

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

But the chase, if chase were given, was vain from the first: for Dapple tore along as though the devil himself sat behind the splashboard.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

There is a splashboard, an unusual luxury in carriages of this kind.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

Some of them hit and flattened on the gable of the railway-official's house, one went through the leathern splashboard of the spider.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard