subs. (obsolete).—The conductor’s place on an old-style omnibus.

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  1860.  Punch, xxxviii. p. 186. I was on the MONKEY-BOARD behind.

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  1883.  GREENWOOD, Tag, Rag, & Co., ‘Planting the “Sours.”’ The omnibus conductors … the ill-paid and hard-worked drudges of the MONKEY-BOARD.

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