buckboard
English
Noun
buckboard (plural buckboards)
- A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
- 1918, Sinclair Lewis, "Afterglow" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, 1962, pp. 79-80,
- In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 85,
- […] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?"
- "On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.
- 1987 Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 106,
- When he turned his head, aiming for a last look at Brother, turned it as much as the rope that connected his neck to the axle of a buckboard allowed, and, later on, when they fastened the iron around his ankles and clamped the wrists as well, there was no outward sign of trembling at all.
- 1918, Sinclair Lewis, "Afterglow" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, 1962, pp. 79-80,
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.