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Definition of Splashboards
1. splashboard [n] - See also: splashboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splashboards
Literary usage of Splashboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1911)
"... they supposed the princes to be. and touched its steps and wheels and splashboards
before they discovered that none of the rollicking "mids" within were ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... ded, and a plank foot-bridge running directly over the sloping splashboards
was used by the customers who came from the hamlet to the mill. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"The same rod or long stick is used that our rustic had on the foot-bridge over
the splashboards, only he goes to work now in a different manner. ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1903)
"A canal corporation does not make such an enlargement of ils dam as to make it
liable for consequential damages by the use of splashboards temporary in ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1904)
"The water is then shut off, and the splashboards, curtains, screens and chuck-blocks
are removed. The water remaining in the mortar is dipped out, ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900)
"Alice Maynard, looking very fresh and charming, and with an unusual touch of
colour on her cheeks, bent over the splashboards and held out her hand in the ..."
7. Dams and Rivers: Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams by Michael Collier, Robert H. Webb, John C. Schmidt (1998)
"The Bureau and WAPA were releasing maximum penstock flows through Glen Canyon,
but the lake still rose at a rate of 6 inches a day. Plywood splashboards ..."
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