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Navigational aid on a sailboat
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leeboard
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A leeboard is a lifting foil used by a sailboat, much like a centerboard , but located on the leeward side of the boat. The leeward side is used so that the leeboard is not lifted from the water when the boat heels, or leans under the force of the wind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leeboard \Lee"board`\ (l[=e]"b[=o]rd`), n. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.
Usage examples of leeboard.
He rolled over the leeboard and slumped onto the side bench, trying to force himself into a semblance of wakefulness.
Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.
Stark cast off the line holding up the great fan-shaped leeboard, and the heavy wood splashed into the water.
The port leeboard was pushed down, and tackles strained to raise the starboard one.
The leeboard scraped bottom, heaving up ponderously before settling back to its position, then hit again.
They found bare boards to lie on, and high leeboards to hide them, all rough and unplaned and at least as welcome as a double sprung mattress.
London river, and Dutchmen from across the way with their leeboards and fat arses, doggers, schuyts, and busses.
Current and wind alike were with them, and side-mounted leeboards dug deep, providing the keel their flat bottoms lacked as they foamed along with a surprising turn of speed.
MacKinnie buys the only seaworthy ship in the garrison town, and McLean improves its sailing capabilities with leeboards and more efficient sails, neither of which the Imperials recognize as technological improvements because they seem so primitive by space-faring standards.
The stores were aboard, and McLean had fitted the leeboards, huge fanshaped wooden boards pivoted at the small end of the fan and fastened nearly amidships of the vessel.
His fancy leeboards were of no use, but his hands were well blistered.
Since the wind came from directly behind, he still had no use for his leeboards, but on the third day, as he approached the bay itself, a brisk wind swept down from the northwest, and he put his bateau on a port tack so that it would head up the bay, against the wind, and now he dropped his starboard leeboard and felt it catch the water and brace him against sideward drifting.
They wanted to know how the sail, which lay in the bottom of the boat, operated, and what the oval leeboards were.