splashboard

Example Sentences

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His jacket was of velveteen, and he had large, iron-shod boots, which were perched upon the splashboard in front of him. 

From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, 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

When he did so reach it he became alive to the fact that a Cape cart, outspanned, with its harness hung over the splashboard, stood before the door.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

The sudden jerk had also sent the driver over the splashboard, but like a good horseman, he steadied himself with the reins and landed on his feet.

From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)

She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton