different between backboard vs buckboard

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: back?board

Etymology 1

back +? board

Noun

backboard (plural backboards)

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back.
3. (medicine, first aid) A spine board.
4. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.

Translations

Etymology 2

Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakb?rt (“portside”). Compare also Old Norse bakborði (“portside”), Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”). Cognate with Scots backburd, backber, babord (“portside”), West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), French bâbord (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”).

Noun

backboard (usually uncountable, plural backboards)

1. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship

   Synonyms: larboard, port

English

Etymology

buck +? board

Noun

buckboard (plural buckboards)

1. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
   • 1918, Sinclair Lewis, "Afterglow" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, 1962, pp. 79-80,

     In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 85, [1]

     […] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?"

     "On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.

   • 1987 Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 106,

     When he turned his head, aiming for a last look at Brother, turned it as much as the rope that connected his neck to the axle of a buckboard allowed, and, later on, when they fastened the iron around his ankles and clamped the wrists as well, there was no outward sign of trembling at all.