knifeboard
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]knifeboard (plural knifeboards)
- A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
- (historical, chiefly attributive) A 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
- Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll
- On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
- (historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.