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lowboy
lowboy
English
A lowboy.
A lowboy carrying a truck.
Alternative forms
- low-boy
Noun
lowboy (plural lowboys)
- A low chest of drawers.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 190:
- Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks [...].
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 190:
- A type of semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.155:
- Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.155:
Synonyms
(trucking):
See also
(furniture):