footboard

[ foo t-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈfʊtˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

a board or small platform on which to support the foot or feet.

an upright piece across the foot of a bedstead.

a treadle.

Origin of footboard

An Americanism dating back to 1755–65; foot + board

Egholm clambered up on the footboard, and found a pleasant surprise.

Egholm and his God |Johannes Buchholtz
I closed the door of the compartment I had been in, and stepped along the footboard to the next.

Dead Man's Love |Tom Gallon
They had placed Lasse's bed with the footboard under the sloping ceiling; there was just room enough for it.

Pelle the Conqueror, Complete |Martin Anderson Nexo
The doctor brought his hand down on the edge of the footboard of the bed, with a gesture of impatience.

Septimus |William J. Locke

She clutched the footboard and clung to it, trembling and breathless.

The Amazing Inheritance |Frances R. Sterrett

footboard

/ (ˈfʊtˌbɔːd) /

a treadle or foot-operated lever on a machine

a vertical board at the foot of a bed