"running board" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: running boards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} running board (plural running boards)
  1. A narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.
    Sense id: en-running_board-en-noun-cgliJzQi
  2. (rail transport) A narrow footway above the driving wheels of some steam locomotives, and along the sides of some diesel locomotives. Categories (topical): Rail transportation, Automotive Translations (step under the car door): marxapeu [masculine] (Catalan), 跑板 (pǎobǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), astinlauta (Finnish), marchepied [masculine] (French), საფეხური (sapexuri) (Georgian), Trittbrett [neuter] (German), 踏み板 (fumiita) (alt: ふみいた) (Japanese), 踏み段 (fumidan) (alt: ふみだん) (Japanese), ステップ (suteppu) (Japanese), stopień [masculine] (Polish), estribo [masculine] (Portuguese), подно́жка (podnóžka) [feminine] (Russian), ступе́нька (stupénʹka) [feminine] (Russian), ногоступ [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nogostup [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), estribo (Spanish), marşpiye (Turkish), підні́жка (pidnížka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), схо́динка (sxódynka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-running_board-en-noun-ZlOkYGdc Disambiguation of Automotive: 8 92 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 81 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 23 77 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport Disambiguation of 'step under the car door': 26 74

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "step under the car door",
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