buckboard
a light, four-wheeled carriage in which a long elastic board or lattice frame is used in place of body and springs.
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How to use buckboard in a sentence
Then, if measures fails, my advice to you as a human bein' and a citizen is to git Seliny into a buckboard and run off with her.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandMrs. Nelson smiled assent and the young fellow indicated a buckboard drawn up to the station.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee HopeI'm going to remove myself from this buckboard before one of those horses decides to sit in my lap.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee HopeThey came back in the old creaking buckboard with Methuselah the old, old white horse, and the Toyman.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonThe lads ran down to the barn and had Jack Ness hitch up a fresh team to a buckboard.
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
British Dictionary definitions for buckboard
/ (ˈbʌkˌbɔːd) /
US and Canadian an open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the seat attached to a flexible board between the front and rear axles
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