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单词 buckboard
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Definition of buckboard in English:

buckboard

nounˈbʌkbɔːdˈbəkbɔrd
North American
  • An open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels and seating that is attached to a plank stretching between the front and rear axles.

    〈北美〉四轮平板马车

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ben already had the buckboard ready, and loaded.
    • Get Morgan up and we will hitch the buckboard and I will ride beside you.
    • They transferred to horse-drawn buggies and, later, to open truck ‘buckboards.’
    • She and Mother drove back in the buckboard and somehow got the old stove loaded.
    • She might get tired of the buckboard ride, the swaying around in the wind and the dearth of heat in the winter.
    • So trying to stay out of one another's way, the three had loaded the buckboard with supplies and tools.
    • In order that he and his friends could continue to enjoy travel by horse-drawn carriage and buckboard, Rockefeller designed and financed what ultimately became a 57-mile-long system of gravel roads.
    • Garrett had already gone home and he'd sent Hans on to the house with the buckboard.
    • Ben had swung into his saddle and pulled the buckskin around to follow his sons and the buckboard out of the yard when he heard it: a half strangled yelp followed swiftly by what was obviously drawers opening and then slamming shut.
    • As the buckboard bounced on its way to the Ponderosa, Hoss and Joe rode close to the buckboard so all four of the Cartwrights could talk.
    • By the time they reached the mercantile store, practically everyone on the street had stopped and were simply staring at the Cartwright brothers as they pulled the buckboard and the horse to a halt.
    • And Herman Goslin made his scant living by meeting the steamboats and transporting the disembarking passengers, if any, up to the hotel in a gimpy buckboard.
    • The buckboard came to a stop next to Wish's chuck wagon.
    • While passing Hop Sing on the road that morning, they'd waved to him as he headed the buckboard into town for their supplies.
    • But when they moved him into the buckboard using a hard board stretcher, he shuddered violently and passed out.
    • Joe was reluctant to rely on the drug, refusing it even when Ben and Hoss moved him to a buckboard for transportation back to the Ponderosa.
    • The current Explorer offers substantial refinement over the previous version, which rides like a buckboard wagon by comparison.
    • Shorty's head came up when he heard the sound of a buckboard pulling up in front of the bank.
    • And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
    • ‘There's three more of these in the buckboard,’ he told Heath as he deposited his burden beside the piano.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from buck 'body of a cart' (perhaps a variant of obsolete bouk 'belly, body') + board.

Rhymes

duckboard

Definition of buckboard in US English:

buckboard

nounˈbəkbôrdˈbəkbɔrd
North American
  • An open, four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage with seating that is attached to a plank stretching between the front and rear axles.

    〈北美〉四轮平板马车

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While passing Hop Sing on the road that morning, they'd waved to him as he headed the buckboard into town for their supplies.
    • Shorty's head came up when he heard the sound of a buckboard pulling up in front of the bank.
    • But when they moved him into the buckboard using a hard board stretcher, he shuddered violently and passed out.
    • And Herman Goslin made his scant living by meeting the steamboats and transporting the disembarking passengers, if any, up to the hotel in a gimpy buckboard.
    • And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
    • ‘There's three more of these in the buckboard,’ he told Heath as he deposited his burden beside the piano.
    • Ben had swung into his saddle and pulled the buckskin around to follow his sons and the buckboard out of the yard when he heard it: a half strangled yelp followed swiftly by what was obviously drawers opening and then slamming shut.
    • Get Morgan up and we will hitch the buckboard and I will ride beside you.
    • She and Mother drove back in the buckboard and somehow got the old stove loaded.
    • Ben already had the buckboard ready, and loaded.
    • She might get tired of the buckboard ride, the swaying around in the wind and the dearth of heat in the winter.
    • The current Explorer offers substantial refinement over the previous version, which rides like a buckboard wagon by comparison.
    • So trying to stay out of one another's way, the three had loaded the buckboard with supplies and tools.
    • By the time they reached the mercantile store, practically everyone on the street had stopped and were simply staring at the Cartwright brothers as they pulled the buckboard and the horse to a halt.
    • As the buckboard bounced on its way to the Ponderosa, Hoss and Joe rode close to the buckboard so all four of the Cartwrights could talk.
    • In order that he and his friends could continue to enjoy travel by horse-drawn carriage and buckboard, Rockefeller designed and financed what ultimately became a 57-mile-long system of gravel roads.
    • Joe was reluctant to rely on the drug, refusing it even when Ben and Hoss moved him to a buckboard for transportation back to the Ponderosa.
    • Garrett had already gone home and he'd sent Hans on to the house with the buckboard.
    • The buckboard came to a stop next to Wish's chuck wagon.
    • They transferred to horse-drawn buggies and, later, to open truck ‘buckboards.’

Origin

Mid 19th century: from buck ‘body of a cart’ (perhaps a variant of obsolete bouk ‘belly, body’) + board.

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