Word Meanings - TAILBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

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• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• LOADSTAR; LODESTAR
  A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LOADSTONE; LODESTONE
  A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• WAGONER
  The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. (more info) 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
• UNLOADER
  One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon.
• LOADMANAGE; LODEMANAGE
  Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. Chaucer.
• BOARDER
  One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. (more info) 1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
• LOADER
  One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.
• WAGON-ROOFED
  Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• LOAD
  The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. Load line, or Load water line , the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. Syn. -- Burden; lading; weight; cargo.
• WAGONAGE
  1. Money paid for carriage or conveyance in wagon. 2. A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• LOADING
  1. The act of putting a load on or into. 2. A load; cargo; burden. Shak.
• WAGONFUL
  As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• CHESSBOARD
  The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
  A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
• ABOARD
  On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• RELOAD
  To load again, as a gun.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• BREECH-LOADING
  Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
• VERGEBOARD
  The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.