Dash and Dashboard
Dash and Dashboard
Dashboard apparently comes from the days of buggies, when it was what protected one from being dashed (another word for splash). My hopes of discovering how this came to be an instrument panel were dashed, as the "d" pages of OED are acting very strangely.
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Only two and a half years later, but here's an explanation:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/cwak.htm#N5
http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/cwak.htm#N5
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