knifeboard
A board on which knives are cleaned or polishedA board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Meaning
3 sensesA board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
(attributive, historical)A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
knifeboard seating
Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
(broadly, historical)An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
Origin
From knife + board.From knife + board.
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Forms
plural: knifeboards| Singular | knifeboard |
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See also
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