| 释义 |
footboard|ˈfʊtbɔəd|
[f. foot n. + board.]
1. A board to support the foot or feet; a board to stand on; e.g. a small platform at the back of a carriage on which the footman stands; a board upon which to step when entering or alighting from a carriage; the foot-rest of a driving-box; in U.S. the foot-plate (see foot n. 35) of a locomotive engine.
1766Smollett Trav. II. xxv. 5 [They] may be carried in a common chair, provided with a foot-board, on men's shoulders. Ibid. II. xxvii. 54 The ladies sit within, and the cicisbei stand on the foot-boards, on each side of the coach. 1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 184 A foot-board behind for the accommodation of a servant. 1825J. Neal Jonathan II. xv. 58 His feet rested on a foot-board, which..was attached..to the rough axle-tree. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 902/1 Foot-board, the platform on which the driver and stoker of a locomotive stand. A foot-plate. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. ii. 49 She was standing on the foot⁓board..with her face to the [railway-] coach.
b. A treadle.
1874in Knight Dict. Mech. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Treadle or Foot Board, a strip of wood actuated by the foot and connected to the crank of a lathe, grindstone..or other small machine.
2. An upright board set across the foot of a bedstead.
1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 232 Groping, with my hand, I felt the footboard at my head! |