Definitions for tailboard

tailboard tail·board

Spelling: [teyl-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈteɪlˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Tailboard is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in tailboard (aabdilort).

Definitions for tailboard

noun

  1. the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.

Origin of tailboard

First recorded in 1795-1805; tail1 + board

Examples for tailboard

With a sudden spring from the tailboard of the wagon Bruce Gilhooley reached the yoke, fiercely goading the oxen onward.

Bruce sprang upon the tailboard to ride, the dogs chased the cow and calf to the crossing.

"The tailboard of the waggon is gone, Miss," said the waggoner.

One of his comrades, seated on the tailboard of the wagon, had discerned a significance in the abrupt silence.

The horses which had brought it there were tied to a hitching post a little way off, and a man stood in the back by the tailboard.

But a cheery voice reassured us, and Gualterios beaming face peered in over the tailboard.

Mike tied his horse to the tailboard of a wagon and approached the woodcutters.

Then, as the tailboard of the wagon swung past him, he reached out and grabbed it.

The trap was a leaf, acting as a sort of tailboard to the wagon.

The coachman had discovered his unlawful presence on the tailboard and had reached him with just the tip end of his whip.

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