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spring-board
[f. spring n.1 or v.1]
1. A projecting board or plank, from the end of which a person jumps or dives. Also fig.
1866Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 659 A long swimming bath..with spring board to jump off. 1885Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Chr. Kirkland III. 223 The spring-board whence she took her next leap into the arena of insolence. 1887Contemp. Rev. May 717 He uses truth simply as a spring⁓board whence to jump into a region created by his own fancy.
attrib.1898Daily News 31 Mar. 8/6 The display concluded with an exhibition of springboard diving.
2. An elastic board used to assist in vaulting.
1799Times 1 June 3/4 He positively leaps over a large tilted waggon and four horses..and does not make use of a spring board or trampoline. 1841Thoreau Jrnl. 23 Jan. (1906) I. v. 174 Like the spring-board on which tumblers perform and develop their elasticity. 1900Daily News 24 Sept. 6/3 With the aid of a spring-board he vaults with ease over nine men placed in a row.
3. N.Amer. and Austral. A board on which a wood-feller stands when working at some height from the ground.
1883E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 200/2 These [holes] were intended for the insertion of their iron-shod ‘spring boards’—pieces of flexible planking..upon which they were to stand while chopping at a height too great to reach from the ground. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 20/1 Nerves of steel are needed day by day By those who on the springboard stand, while forest monarchs sway. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 16 July 6/5 He captured first place in the springboard chop open competition to become Canadian champion. 1975H. White Raincoast Chron. (1976) 102/2 Metal-tipped springboards set in notches were used by the early fallers to climb above the butt-swell [of a tree].
4. U.S. A light kind of vehicle.
1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 174 A couple in a waggon, or a dusty farmer on a spring-board toiling over the ‘grade’ to..Calistoga. |