splashboard

English

Etymology

splash +‎ board

Noun

splashboard (plural splashboards)

  1. A guard towards the front of a horse-drawn vehicle, to prevent splashing by mud or water from the road.
    • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      The old driver was hanging over the splash-board like some grotesque scarecrow, his arms dangling absurdly in front of him.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 168:
      Reluctantly Cora handed up the basket and was hauled up over the splash-board herself, and bumped down on the chaffbags as Ted Farrell clicked up the horse again.
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