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- noun Plural form of
bargeboard .
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Examples
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In 1999, the championship fight again distilled into a battle between Ferrari and McLaren, but at the penultimate race, both Ferraris were disqualified when their 'bargeboards' (aerodynamic appendages behind the front wheels) were found to be outside the mandatory dimensions.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Days later, the FIA International Court of Appeal reversed Ferrari's disqualification, on the basis not that the bargeboards were in fact legal, but that the rules had been inadequately written.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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If not — "she lowered her hands —" the timber in the attic may be as rotten as the bargeboards.
Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002
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She pointed to the bargeboards beneath the eaves, which were showing signs of wet rot in the shredding wood.
Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002
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The travellers returned into the High Street, where there were timber houses with overhanging stories, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing - string, and under whose bargeboards old cobwebs waved in the breeze.
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Street, where there were timber houses with overhanging stories, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string, and under whose bargeboards old cobwebs waved in the breeze.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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However they will not have to remove the bargeboards that hold the mirrors in place, due to a loophole in the regulations.
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Compared to last year, the front wings are lower (75mm) and wider (1800mm), with driver-adjustable flaps; the rear wing is taller (level with the top of the airbox) and narrower (750mm); the diffuser has been moved back by 350mm so that it's level with the rear wing and all extraneous winglets, chimneys and bargeboards have been outlawed.
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Similarly, the removal of bargeboards from behind the front wheels and the elimination of myriad flaps and winglets on the bodywork not only cleans up the appearance but also reduces the surfaces that could be affected by air from the leading car.
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After the race, the stewards found that the bargeboards of the two Ferraris were slightly long and disqualified them.
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