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splash-board
Also splashboard.
[f. prec.]
1. A guard or screen in front of the driver's seat on a vehicle, serving to protect him, or others sitting beside him, from being splashed with mud from the horse's hoofs. Also in fig. context.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey II. iii. viii. 121 By dint of rattling the whip against the splash-board. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 91/2 He takes a rein in each hand;..and dances on the splashboard with both feet. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Late Gt. Vict., I was his conscience, and stood on the splash-board of his triumph-car.
1861G. M. Musgrave By-Roads 75 Our fast mare..had nearly pitched me on to the splashboard. 1894Baring-Gould Kitty Alone II. 102 Pepperill fastened it to the splashboard, and drove on.
2. A board fixed over or beside a wheel to intercept splashings.
1850Holtzapffel Turning III. 1297 A splash-board is fixed behind the wheel, to catch the water thrown off, by centrifugal force. 1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 1341/2 It is further recommended that for the wet spinning rooms..modified splashboards should be obligatory.
3. Naut. A screen above the deck-line.
1907C. D. Stewart Partners of Providence vi, The splash⁓board stood up in front of the wheel like a back-yard fence. 1912J. Masefield Dauber v, A sea Washed them both in, over the splashboard.
4. A splashback; a protective panel attached to a wall.
1868C. L. Eastlake Hints on Household Taste viii. 183 The common bed-room wash-stand..has a splash-board to protect the wall against which it is placed. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 11-a/4 Even a minimal remodeling job can cost $2,500 before the flower-print wallpaper is stuck on the splashboard. |