Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A board on which knives are cleaned and polished.
- n. A central double seat, running along the top of an omnibus from front to rear.
Wiktionary
- n. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
- n. archaic An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Etymologies
- knife + board (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The "knifeboard," as the low partition against which outside passengers sat back to back was called, does not appear until after 1852.”
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
“There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of “blood.””
“Then Hugh Stanbury took his leave of Mrs Outhouse; but as he went home, again on the knifeboard of an omnibus, he smoked the pipe of triumph rather than the pipe of contemplation.”
“It was Larive who had just climbed down from the knifeboard.”
“There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of "blood.”
“Lozérien Helvellyn, provided we could sit on a knifeboard.”
“Yes, it was out of the question to drive for fourteen hours at a stretch, seated on such a knifeboard.”
“So I gave up the chase and dropped behind, covered with dust and perspiration, amid frantic cheers from the knifeboard and broad grins from the passengers on the pavement.”
“Lamm it on, Jimmy," was the delighted cry from the knifeboard, as a score of heads craned over to witness the chase.”
“Right away, Jimmy; off you go!" called one of the youths on the knifeboard, whom I recognised as my late travelling companion.”
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
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