Meaning of knifeboard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
2. A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
   attributive, historical
3. An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
   broadly, historical

Examples

“knifeboard seating”

“Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.”

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