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sideboard

sideboard

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A removable board attached to a wagon side to hold more goods
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪdbɔrd/
  • Archaic
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  • It was one of those trucks with sideboards, the kind they use to deliver building supplies.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The craftsmen constructed a wagon with high sideboards to safely transport lumber to the site.

  • We loaded the sideboard onto the trailer to ensure nothing fell out during the drive.

Surface Forms

sideboard singular
sideboards plural

Morphology

sideboard = side + board (transparent) = side + board

Literal compound meaning 'a board at the side' used to extend a wagon's carrying capacity, which is directly inferable from the parts.

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.