tailboard

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English

Etymology

From tail +‎ board.

Noun

tailboard (plural tailboards)

  1. A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171:
      She got one knee up under him and hurled him off, and was over the tail-board in a flash, landing on her feet like a cat, and panting hard, by the sudden release of a violent emotion.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
      The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.

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