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   Anna Wuntu to All   
   Re: What's a buckboard?   
   10 Sep 07 12:01:36   
   
   From: letsdance@dontmail.com   
      
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   gkincaid000@centurytel.net says...   
   >   
   >Thanks. So a buckboard is a kind of wagon, not a part of one. I need to get   
   >to the Gene Autry museum....   
      
   I guess one could consider the seat on such   
   a wagon the "bucking board" but the actual term   
   refers to the entire wagon with the word   
   "buck" deriving from the old English word for   
   "body" plus board, accordin to Webster's online.   
      
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