tail gate

But wakeful Doby sat on a tail-gate and viewed the smoking, blackened landscape with misery in his heart.

Camera safe on top and your suit-case tied to the tail-gate.

It crept toward the tail-gate—a sobbing breath—and a clumsy little animal fell at his feet.

The conductor unfastened a tail-gate in the guard-rail, and the flagman dropped his prisoner out through the opening.