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Definition of Springboards
1. springboard [n] - See also: springboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Springboards
Literary usage of Springboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Worker and His Work: Readings in Present Day Literature Presenting Some by Stella Stewart Center (1920)
"That done, they swung the ends of their springboards, or if it were a ...
The sawyers would drop lightly from their springboards, crying: " Tim-ber-rrr! ..."
2. How to Swim by Annette Kellermann (1918)
"Wherever possible, springboards or diving platforms should be provided with a
... In addition to springboards and a platform, a permanent horizontal bar ..."
3. Song-roundels and Games by Henry Suder (1904)
"Immediately in front of the basket the basemen, standing on ordinary springboards,
are arranged in a semi-circle. If a requisite number of springboards is ..."
4. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization
vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the ..."
5. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"... resistance to the fins, it presses on them as if they were jumping springboards,
and then darts forwards and upwards with great strength and agility. ..."
6. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"... and profiting by the resistance to the fins, it presses on them as if they
were jumping springboards, and then darts forwards and upwards with great ..."
7. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of .our civilization
vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the un- ..."
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