Meanings
plural splashers
- Someone who splashes.
They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.
1915, Nell Speed, Molly Brown's Orchard Home - datedA guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350Synonyms: splashguard
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
More synonyms by meaning
nounprotective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc.
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