Sentence examples for tailboard from inspiring English sources
noun
A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
One purpose of the pennon was to obviate accidents in much the same way as does a red flag tied to a long pole or rod that extends beyond the tailboard of a truck.
Similarly with the outside loading-bay at tailboard height, "we shall be able to wheel Ben's grand straight in".
He fell in behind a rather aged truck, evidently engaged in inter-city express service in New Jersey, and noted the stencilled inscription on its tailboard: "Faster than rail; regular than mail".
By Winthrop Sargeant and John McCarten The New Yorker, August 15 , 1964P. 23 Chalked inscription on the tailboard of a truck meandering down Second Avenue the other day: "Te segui donde tu vayas, Amor," which--unless, God forbid, Berlitz has failed us utterly adds up to "Whither thou goest I follow, Love".
The New Yorker, August 15 , 1964P. 23 Chalked inscription on the tailboard of a truck meandering down Second Avenue the other day: "Te segui donde tu vayas, Amor," which--unless, God forbid, Berlitz has failed us utterly adds up to "Whither thou goest I follow, Love".
