noun
Meaning 1
A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
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knifeboard
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, historical
Examples
- knifeboard seating
- Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
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noun
Meaning 3
An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, historical
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History
Etymology
From knife + board.