Definition of "knifeboard" in English

noun

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.