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Tailboard

noun
1.
A gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading.  Synonym: tailgate.





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"Tailboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... large. Most of them were held in the open air, usually on the street corners. From the system by which one speaker followed another, speaking at several meeting places in a night, the labor campaign got its nickname of the "tailboard campaign." The common people, women and men, gathered in hundreds and often thousands around trucks from which the shifting speakers addressed the crowd. The speakers were volunteers, including representatives of the liberal professions, lawyers, physicians, ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman
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... stage fright, superinduced by the sudden appearance of a coal cart directly in his pathway. In a predicament of this kind strict guiding rules cannot be laid down, but no blame can attach to the automobilist if he climbs over the tailboard of the vehicle and adds a new series of phrenological bumps to the suburban part of the head of the offending ...
— The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott
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Words linked to "Tailboard" :   beach waggon, beach wagon, station wagon, estate car, truck, motortruck, station waggon, waggon, wagon, gate


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