splashboard
Example Sentences
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Sir Claude poked his stick at the splashboard of the cab.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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 K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
I seized the reins in the nick of time, just as they were slipping over the splashboard, and bracing myself for the effort, succeeded in bringing the team to a standstill.
From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery
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 Gordon Stables
