英和和英

名詞

splashboard (複数形 splashboards)

1. A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎^[1]:

     The old driver was hanging over the splash-board like some grotesque scarecrow, his arms dangling absurdly in front of him.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 168:

     Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again.