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Recent Examples of buckboard
Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
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Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
16 Aug. 2021
The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
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Dan Neil,
WSJ,
31 Aug. 2017
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buckboard
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There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.
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Another historic gem, Black Mountain Inn, was built in the 1830s as a stagecoach stop.
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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.
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Like watching a chariot crash with a rider named Oedipus.
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The gemstone features an image of Victoria, the goddess of victory, on a chariot.
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The first cars looked like horse buggies.
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Golf buggies are no longer limited to eighteen holes of windy leisure.
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Police do not believe the cab was carrying any passengers at the time of the crash.
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That's in part because the Slate pickup comes exclusively in two-seat single-cab form, a fact that should only further endear it to wistful lovers of classic small pickups.
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Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
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Martha moved the antique wicker chaise below out to her driveway and sprayed it dusty rose to match the bedroom's walls.
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In a photo shared in her People cover story, which was shot by photographer Ruven Afanador, Shakira could be seen lounging on a brocade-upholstered chaise while modeling a nude cowl neck slip dress made out of nothing but mesh.
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“Buckboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buckboard. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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