[f. TAIL sb.1 + BOARD.]
1. The board at the hinder end of a cart, barrow, van, etc.; usually one attached to the bottom by a hinge, and capable of being suspended at various angles for convenience in loading, etc.
1805. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 376/1. She was crushed between the tail-board of the cart and the house.
1847. Alb. Smith, Chr. Tadpole, xlvi. (1879), 405. Have you … a shutter, or the tail-board of a cart … you can carry him on?
1881. Young, Ev. Man his own Mechanic, § 1072. The parts which compose the barrow may be enumerated as the two sides, the front, the tail board; the bottom, the wheel, and the legs.
2. (See quot.)
1841. Totten, Naval Textbk. (U.S.), 411. Tailboards, in shipbuilding, the carved work between the cheeks, fastened to the knee of the head.
