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noun
Footboard  n.  
1.
A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as:
(a)
The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
(b)
The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
2.
A board forming the foot of a bedstead.
3.
A treadle.





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"Footboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning with so much serenity. It was this same old elaborately carved black Venetian bedstead—the most comfortable bedstead that ever was, with space enough in it for a family, and carved angels enough surmounting its twisted columns and its headboard and footboard to bring peace to the sleepers, and pleasant dreams. I had to stop in the middle of the room. I hadn't the strength to go on. I believed that I was under accusing eyes—that even the carved angels were inspecting me with an unfriendly gaze. You know how it is when ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... not so good as it might have been, probably because we were taking leave of the Thames and other landmarks. But four of the twelve who comprised the party have since seen them, and of these four one was to return by way of a German hospital, a prison camp, a jump from the footboard of a train, a series of lone night-walks that extended over two months, and an escape across the frontier of Neutralia, while two fellow-fugitives were shot dead ...
— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott
... late in December before Drene opened his eyes in his right senses. He unclosed them languidly, gazed at the footboard of his bed, then, around at the four ...
— Between Friends • Robert W. Chambers
... was piloting M. Etienne Rambert, set the baggage he was carrying down on the footboard of a ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... the station there was a wild rush for seats. The excited Teutons grabbed at handles—in fact at anything protruding from the carriages—in a desperate endeavour to be first on the footboard. Many were carried struggling and kicking along the platform. Women were bowled over pell-mell and their shrieks and cries mingled with the hoarse, exuberant howls of the war-fever stricken maniacs already tasting the smell of ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
... dance?" He drew in his breath, and his hands, gripping the bed's footboard, closed a little tighter. "I'd forgotten that. Yes, your ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... nothing was required of me until morning, I drove past the house with the army hanging to the footboard. The lower rooms were dark, but lights twinkled through the second-story shutters. My aunt was established on the premises, and her coming and the circumstances of her advent constituted a good joke of which I and not she was the victim. When I reached my ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson


Words linked to "Footboard" :   platform, bedframe, running board, panel


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