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tailboard

/teyl-bawrd, -bohrd/US // ˈteɪlˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd //UK // (ˈteɪlˌbɔːd) //

尾板,尾盘,尾巴板,尾部板

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the tailgate, especially of a wagon or truck.

Examples

  • There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could.

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

  • She came to me out of the rolling dust of an emigrant wagon, behind whose tailboard she was gravely trotting.

  • Her eyes strayed from the tailboard of the wagon on which she stood, over the scene around her.

  • The kerosene lantern hanging over the tailboard cast its glow for no great distance.