(n.) A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.
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Washboard
Definition:
(n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
(n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
(n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) His target customer: Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
(2) Venturing west, you might have stumbled across Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, where New Orleans's dapper Luke Winslow-King and the washboard-wielding Esther Rose got the crawfish-munching masses jitterbugging to their vintage sweaty Southern stomp.
(3) My first gig in school was a skiffle group – a couple of guitars, washboard, tea-chest bass – but I'd already been doing gigs before that, youth club gigs.