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tailboard
[teyl-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.
tailboard
/ ˈٱɪˌɔː /
noun
a board at the rear of a lorry, wagon, etc, that can be removed or let down on a hinge
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tailboard1
Example Sentences
The doors were shut, but he jumped onto the tailboard on the back.
By the time it hit the tailboard at the back of a truck, it was doing 30 or 40mph.
We moved slowly but steadily in the rain, the radiator cap of our car almost against the tailboard of a truck that was loaded high, the load covered with wet canvas.
Girls, the next grade we come to, you three jump out and wait for Hepsy to start on her way, then instantly climb up on the tailboard and sit there.
To find it we have only to draw a line upwards through the two stars in the tailboard of the waggon and on into space.
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