Definition of "buckboard" [buck•board]

• A four-wheeled open carriage with the seat or seats attached to a flexible board running between the front and rear axles. (noun)

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• "After the Patagonia fever passed he deeded over to his family ten acres of Tarwater Flat and retained for himself only a span of old horses, a mountain buckboard and one room in the crowded house."
• "All he had retained for himself was a span of old horses, a mountain buckboard, and his one room in the crowded house."
• "They -- these charming, kind people -- lent us their own 'buckboard' -- a glorified one; and their two horses, Cash and"