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

Presently the driver noticed that a sturdy young rascal was on the point of climbing onto the splashboard; wherefore he cracked his whip and the britchka leapt forward with increased speed over the cobblestones.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

It was a two-handled bag, of japanned leather, and Doctor Unonius, as he took it from her and rested it against the splashboard, noted also that it was exceedingly heavy.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.

From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx

Then, as I drew a matchbox from my pocket, he threw his reins over the splashboard, and removing his large, iron-shod boots he descended on to the road. 

From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir