: a four-wheeled vehicle with a floor made of long springy boards
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Examples of buckboard in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebInstead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021 The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.—Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
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Word History
Etymology
obsolete English buck body of a wagon + English board
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