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buckboard

[ buhk-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. a light, four-wheeled carriage in which a long elastic board or lattice frame is used in place of body and springs.


buckboard

/ ˈ²úÊŒ°ìËŒ²úɔ˻å /

noun

  1. an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
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Origin of buckboard1

1830–40, Americanism; obsolete buck “body, holder†( bucket ) + board
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But are we really expected to believe the Framers created an impeachment process with a hole so large you could ride a buckboard through it?

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As more immigrants headed west, flimflam men began selling “miracle†remedies from their buckboard wagons.

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The news of the wonderful pig spread clear up into the hills, and farmers came rattling down in buggies and buckboards, to stand hour after hour at Wilbur’s pen admiring the miraculous animal.

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I made Ma set on the buckboard seat and tolt her to keep a eye out with the pistol in her lap.

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Pa had the buckboard and Shirl, the biggest plow horse, waiting on the road.

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