knifeboard

English

Etymology

knife +‎ board

Noun

knifeboard (plural knifeboards)

  1. A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
  2. (historical, chiefly attributive) A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
    knifeboard seating
    • Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll
      On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
  3. (historical, by extension) An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
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