Footboard
[futbɒ:d]
Definition
(noun.) a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead.
(noun.) a narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet.
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet
(n.) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
(n.) The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
(n.) A board forming the foot of a bedstead.
(n.) A treadle.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- I left the road, crossed the ditch on a footboard and walked along the field beyond the ditch. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The fuel used is gasoline, stored in a three-gallon tank under the footboard. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Edited by Bonita