Meanings
nounknifeboard (plural knifeboards)
plural knifeboards
- A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
- attributivehistoricalA way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
knifeboard seating
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Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
- broadlyhistoricalAn early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
Origin
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knifeboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knifeboard
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“knifeboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knifeboard. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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