rabbit board
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An authority responsible for the management and control of wild rabbits.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage
noun
A board on which a rabbit may be immobilised.
Example Sentences
- "You speak of rabbit boards in the other colonies.[…]You have had nothing to do with the rabbit boards in Queensland?"
- "1907, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, Volume 15, Issue 1, page 325, I think the time is not too far distant when there will need to be rabbit boards appointed to deal with the pest locally, and with that in view I have had a draft of a new Act prepared by the Crown Law Department making provision for such, and have submitted it to you for your approval."
- "Infested districts are proclaimed by the Governor, and thereupon a rabbit board shall be constituted to carry out the provisions of the Act."
- "There are about fifty or sixty Rabbit Boards in New Zealand, controlling a tremendous area of land, and it is necessary for them to supply farmers with certain poisons,[…]."
- "Most notable in this regard have been the Rabbit Boards of Queensland[…]."
- "1980, Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volumes 66-67, page 139, These bodies—pastures protection boards, stock boards, rabbit boards, and so on—discharged various reserved functions of local government, and made up a parallel hierarchy."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
rabbit boards (plural)
rabbit-board (alternative)