splashboard
Example Sentences
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First, there was an old lumbering family volante, a sort of gig, with four posts or uprights supporting a canopy covered with leather, and with a high dash—iron or splashboard in front.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
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
I found that the clock on the splashboard required winding, and was in the act of doing this when my eyes fell upon a second person who was equally a mystery.
From The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux
She struck her foot fretfully against the splashboard.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Olive Schreiner
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 Eleanor Marx Aveling
