splashboard

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In the Southwest, five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason may be asked why these waggons have such low splashboards as to admit all the gravel?

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.

Unless the splashboards are used all but a few of the flies succeed in escaping as the cattle plunge into the bath and later return to them.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Dipping cattle in a vat provided with splashboards set at the proper angle destroys most of the hornflies present on the animals.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry