splashboard

Example Sentences

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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

When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again.

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

My preserver sat half in and half out of the carriage, leaning his white, well-shaped hand upon the splashboard.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.

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

The stage came to a halt so violent that Jim Bailey lurched forward against the splashboard, the reins jerked out of his hands.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine