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- noun Plural form of
footboard .
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Examples
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The outer edges of the shelves carried low footboards, at right angles to which shallow, parallel dividers, running up to the walls, carved the shelves into bedspaces.
Work Camp 2056 L 2010
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A recall of 1,500 bunk beds this week featured a trifecta of safety hazards — fall, entrapment and strangulation — caused by the beds 'lack of sufficient headboards, footboards or guardrails as well as gaps that can trap a child's head.
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Consisting of a mattress atop a titanium platform, the bed had manacles attached by chains embedded in the solid head and footboards.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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A recall of 1,500 bunk beds this week featured a trifecta of safety hazards—fall, entrapment and strangulation—caused by the beds' lack of sufficient headboards, footboards or guardrails as well as gaps that can trap a child's head.
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Consisting of a mattress atop a titanium platform, the bed had manacles attached by chains embedded in the solid head and footboards.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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Consisting of a mattress atop a titanium platform, the bed had manacles attached by chains embedded in the solid head and footboards.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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The herders had to drive their machines by standing on the footboards or kneeling on the seat, instead of riding in the usual seated straddle position like on a motorcycle, in order to spot reindeer at a greater distance and to steer around rocks, trees, and other obstacles.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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A stunning c1890 Louis XV solid-walnut full-double bed with intricate carving to both head and footboards.
Doin it 2007
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The bed - quite the largest L-onie had ever seen - sat like an Egyptian barge in the centre of the room, its ornate head and footboards polished and gleaming.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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The attendants leapt off the footboards and helped their patrons down to the boardwalk that ran from the curb to the grand entrance of the house.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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