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Splashboard

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

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Protection 76% connected

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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Vehicle 70% connected

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance;…

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Vessel 70% connected

A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bo…

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Dashboard 92% connected

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Splasher 92% connected

One who, or that which, splashes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Washboard 92% connected

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

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Antero- unknown · 78% connection

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

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Bayard adjective · 78% connection

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

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Bluebonnet noun · 78% connection

low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…

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Centreboard noun · 78% connection

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when…

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Circuit noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Constitutional Convention noun · 78% connection

the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

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Cotter noun · 78% connection

A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an ope…

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Countermarch noun · 78% connection

An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…

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Deep superl. · 78% connection

Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth…

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Dover's Powder unknown · 78% connection

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…

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Drive verb · 78% connection

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…

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East noun · 78% connection

Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the…

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Escapade noun · 78% connection

The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

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Fed noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve System noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Fender noun · 78% connection

a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud; "in Britain they call a fender a ‘wing’"

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