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ˈrunning-board
Also running board.
[f. running vbl. n.]
†1. A narrow gangway on either side of a keel-boat. U.S. Obs.
1817Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1866) VIII. 240 Our boat being very deep..[we] were obliged to give up after being at the expense of putting on running boards. 1834H. Brackenridge Recoll. iv. 37 One night..I..lay.. on the running board (a plank at the edge of the boat, on which the men walk in pushing with the pole). 1843Amer. Pioneer II. 271 Keel-boats..were provided with running boards, extending from bow to stern, on each side of the boat... The crew, divided equally on each side, set their poles near the head of the boat, and bringing the end of the pole to their shoulders, with their bodies bent, walked slowly down the running board to the stern.
2. a. A foot-board extending along the side of a locomotive, railway wagon, or tram, or one extending along the roof of a railway wagon. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1860Clark & Colburn Recent Practice Locomotive Engine 51/2 The cab, domes, ‘running-board’, and other matters of external finish, are very much the same on most American engines. 1874M. N. Forney Catechism of Locomotive 337 The running-boards are planks..placed on each side of the boiler to enable the locomotive runner or fireman to go from the cab to the front end of the engine when it is running. 1889Cent. Dict., Running board,..(a) A narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive. (b) A horizontal board along the ridge of a box freight-car or the side of an oil-car, to form a passage for the trainmen. 1903Electrical World & Engin. 14 Nov. 795/2 The ‘mule’ has two large hooks for the towropes and has also a running board and guard hand rail. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 284 The cars that buzzed and clanged their way past Wayne were filled to the running-boards. 1930Amer. Speech V. 277 Running-board is a bit puzzling, but the speculation that it was derived from the old summer trolleys, now almost extinct in the north, is at least permissible. 1940Life 4 Mar. 50/2 The rear-end brakeman..makes an inspection tour along the ‘running board’, looking for loose brake beams or hot boxes. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 187 Particularly if the running board of the tram was already crowded with fat women.
b. A foot-board located on either side of a motor vehicle between the front and rear mudguards.
1907S. Krausz Practical Automobile Dict. 26 Running-board, s., marchepied, s.m. 1910Sears, Roebuck Motor Buggy Booklet 28 With the addition of running boards connecting front and rear fenders, convenient for shopping or business where frequent getting in and out is necessary. 1914E. A. Powell Fighting in Flanders vii. 169 A big grey car shot down the road... Clinging to the running-board was her English chauffeur. 1927M. de la Roche Jalna xii. 136 Wakefield mounted the running board and held the Michaelmas daisies out to her. 1929Daily Express 14 Jan. 6/3 Heath, leaning over the running-board, shouted some unintelligible words. 1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 139 Phil sat down on the running-board of Mr. Haman's car. 1959Motor 7 Oct. 246/2 The body sides have now been carried out towards the rear to narrow down the running boards and reduce the protruding width of the rear wings. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward viii. 380 They sat on the running-board of the car. 1974Country Life 17 Oct. 1104/1 There is the Volkswagen Beetle... Here in the 1970s we still have a car with very rounded lines, small windows, a very cramped interior and outside running boards.
3. A device used in positioning overhead power lines which enables several conductors to be pulled simultaneously using a single pulling line.
1898E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words (ed. 4) 911/1 Running-board, a device employed in the construction of a heavy overhead line, consisting in placing a number of reels of wire, usually ten or more, on a spindle, and arranging a piece of wood as a cross-arm to which ten or more wires are attached, harnessing horses to the cross⁓piece, and then dragging the running board away as the wires are paid out from the reels, and passing them over their appropriate cross-arms, where they are at once secured to the insulators by line-men. 1964E. B. Kurtz Lineman's & Cableman's Handbk. (ed. 4) xiv. 7 Tension stringing of bundled conductors. Usually two or three conductors are pulled simultaneously by one pulling line with the use of a unidirectional articulated running board. |