lowboy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”).

lowboy (plural lowboys)

(furniture) A low chest of drawers.
Coordinate term: tallboy
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 38, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 1, page 195:
  Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks […] .
(trucking) A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment.
Synonyms: float, low loader
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155:
  Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.
(music) A precursor to the hi-hat drum, with a pair of cymbals low to the ground that are struck with a foot pedal.