sideboard
- noun
- /ˈsaɪdbɔrd/
- Archaic
- It was one of those trucks with sideboards, the kind they use to deliver building supplies.
Examples
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Two of Scraggy's crew members straddle the sideboard.
Fiction book (1990) -
Indiana rides the car's rusted sideboard.
Fiction book (1990) -
A couple of college kids backed a rental truck around, and they put the sideboard in the back.
Fiction book (2000) -
You wanted to station agents on his bumpers and sideboards.
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His lucky day had been the one where she'd asked a certain old guy with a pickup if she could hire him to haul this big ugly sideboard she'd bought home for her.
Fiction book (2001) -
To be honest, most of my dozen concussions occurred right after my father said, "Hey, Park, see if you can..." either jump off the roof, or hold tight to the sideboard of a VW while he backed full-speed down the driveway before hitting the brakes, or slide down a steep hill on a snow disk without going in the creek, etc.
Fiction book (1999) -
The farmer added a sideboard to the cart to carry extra produce during the market run.
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The craftsmen constructed a wagon with high sideboards to safely transport lumber to the site.
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We loaded the sideboard onto the trailer to ensure nothing fell out during the drive.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sideboard comes from side + board, meaning a 'board' fixed to the 'side' of a wagon to hold more goods. So, a sideboard can mean a removable board used to increase a wagon's carrying space.