splashboard

[ splash-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈsplæʃˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

a board, guard, or screen to protect from splashing, as a dashboard of a vehicle or a guard placed over a wheel to intercept water, dirt, etc.

Nautical. washboard(def 3).

Origin of splashboard

First recorded in 1820–30; splash + board

When he had got rid of everything but half a wheel and the splashboard he bolted again.

The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow |Jerome K. Jerome
Then they stopped altogether, and she felt the shock of hoofs upon the splashboard.

Rosa Mundi and Other Stories |Ethel M. Dell
Jack Cardigan had broken a splashboard, so far as one could make out, and would not be "fit" for some time.

The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. |John Galsworthy
Mrs. Vansuythen obeyed, but as Mrs. Boulte leaned forward, putting her hand upon the splashboard of the dog-cart, Kurrell spoke.

Under the Deodars |Rudyard Kipling

She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return.

The Slave Of The Lamp |Henry Seton Merriman

splashboard

/ (ˈsplæʃˌbɔːd) /

a guard on a vehicle to protect people from splashing water, mud, etc

nautical another word for washboard (def. 4b)