different between buckwagon vs buckboard

English

Alternative forms

• buck-wagon

Etymology

From Afrikaans bok (“buck; goat”) and English wagon. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Middle English bouk (“belly”) or Old English buc (“buck; deer”).

Noun

buckwagon (plural buckwagons)

1. (South Africa) A strong wagon with a frame over the wheels used for hauling goods.
   • 1871, "An Act to Promote the Construction of a Bridge or Bridges over the Orange River", Cape of Good Hope:

     Upon each loaded buck-wagon, drawn by any sort of animals, not exceeding sixteen in number £0.17s.6d.

2. (US) A buckboard; a wagon for personal transport as well as transporting goods.
   • 1880, B.B. Simms, "Post-Office Deficiencies § Texas", United States congressional serial set, page 304:

     ...while on the remaining days of the week a two-horse buck-wagon or hack is used.

References

• "buckwagon" in Noah Webster, Chauncey Goodrich, Noah Porter, and James Hadley. An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1864
• "buck, n.5" in Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “buckwagon”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

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.