Knifeboard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Knifeboard is a noun meaning A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Meaning
A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
More Meanings
- (historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
- (historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
Example Sentences
knifeboard seating
Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
Word Forms
- knifeboards
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include handboard, scrubboard, bord, wasteboard, junkboard, boord.
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