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Definition of Running board
1. Noun. A narrow footboard serving as a step beneath the doors of some old cars.
Definition of Running board
1. Noun. A narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Running Board
Literary usage of Running board
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"ant on an adjoining track, while riding on the loft-hand running board of the
defendant ... Negligence of Carrier — Injury to Person on running board. ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1910)
"While a Passenger Riding on the Running-board of a street-car when there is no
room for him inside takes upon himself the duty of looking out for and ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1916)
"108, the plaintiff was injured while on the left hand running board with the side
bar down in violation of a rule with which he was familiar, ..."
4. Telephone Lines and Their Properties by William John Hopkins (1894)
"This running board is roughly shown in the diagram. ... In stringing wires over
the lower cross-arms a divided running board is used, one half passing each ..."
5. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"But the general tendency of the cases seems to be toward restricting the meaning
of the term.19 It has been held that a skid or running board laid from cars ..."
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