An elastic board, either supporting the seat of a vehicle, or itself used to sit on. The term is also applied to the vehicle thus furnished.
1839. Did he ever see a teamster riding upon a buckboard? a stout, springy plank, laid upon the bare bolsters of a waggon!—C. F. Hoffman, ‘Wild Scenes,’ i. 10 (Lond.).
1888. The buckboard’s pretty narrow for three of us, but then Bessie is not very big, and I can hold her on my lap.—N.Y. Mercury, n.d. (Farmer).
