Knifeboard

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
  2. 2
    A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams. attributive, historical

    "knifeboard seating"

  3. 3
    An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus. broadly, historical

Example

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"Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay."

Etymology

From knife + board.

Related phrases

knifeboard bus

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