knifeboard
nounEtymology From knife + board.
1
A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
2
Historical 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
Broadly, Historical An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.