Crossword clues for larboard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Larboard \Lar"board`\, a. On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter.
Larboard \Lar"board`\, n. [Lar- is of uncertain origin, possibly the same as lower, i. e., humbler in rank, because the starboard side is considered by mariners as higher in rank; cf. D. laag low, akin to E. low. See Board, n., 8.] (Naut.) The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.
Note: Larboard is a nearly obsolete term, having been superseded by port to avoid liability of confusion with starboard, owing to similarity of sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"left-hand side of a ship" (to a person on board and facing the bow), 1580s, from Middle English ladde-borde (c.1300), perhaps literally "the loading side," if this was the side on which goods were loaded onto a ship, from laden "to load" + bord "ship's side." Altered 16c. on influence of starboard, then largely replaced by the specialized sense of port (n.1). to avoid confusion of similar-sounding words. The Old English term was bæcboard, literally "back board" (see starboard).
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete nautical English) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern; port side.
WordNet
Usage examples of "larboard".
The Biter heeled on the new slant, and the breeze struck colder from the larboard beam, laced with lumps of spray.
But as the Biter rolled away from them, exposing her weedy larboard side, four of her guns were fired almost simultaneously, and by luck or judgement they caught the roll just right.
Barcelona with the strong wind on her larboard quarter and her big lateens bellying out and swaying wildly on the roll.
As soon as they saw him looming in the dim glow of the hatchway the master and young Ricketts moved silently over to the larboard side, and Jack resumed his solitary pacing from the taffrail to the aftermost deadeye.
As he sailed on northwards, with Madagascar as his goal, Africa was always there off the larboard beam.
She strode to the larboard rail and marched up and down the deck, staring sternly at the small white houses on the far bank of the estuary and the little brownsailed tuggers that were slipping slowly out to sea before the vagrant morning airs.
A many comely nymphs drew nigh to starboard and to larboard and, clinging to the sides of the noble bark, they linked their shining forms as doth the cunning wheelwright when he fashions about the heart of his wheel the equidistant rays whereof each one is sister to another and he binds them all with an outer ring and giveth speed to the feet of men whenas they ride to a hosting or contend for the smile of ladies fair.
When the barque held on her course, another hail bellowed from the brig, following which her bow fell off again to larboard.
CAPTAIN CAUTION 333 Sailors filled the waist of the barque from larboard to starboard bulwarks.
Back on deck, with time to spare, Harry had all his guns housed, taking care to leave his larboard carronades loaded, even if they were bowsed tight against the ports.
The running out of the guns was an unhurried affair, and the loading was all dumb show The tubs of slow-match were set to both sides, even though the larboard guns were still bowsed tight against the ports.
He looked over the rail and saw the Principessa sailing easy on the larboard quarter.
Others took up the mats covering the platform, shook them to leeward, lashed them down again in a seamanlike manner, and heaved on the forestays, now slackening with the heat of the sun, while a third party brought up small pigs, edible dogs and fowls, in baskets, mostly from the larboard hull, and arranged them on the forward part of the deck where they sat good and quiet, as ship-borne animals so often do.
Although the Surprise was now making very close on thirteen knots, with her larboard cathead well under water and her lee rail hardly to he seen for the rushing foam, while her bow-wave flung the spray a good twenty yards and her deck sloped at thirty-five degrees, he still called for the spritsail course.
Both were stupefied to see a tall hemlock growing along the larboard shore teeter in the wind, then continue to tee ter, its roots tearing up from the ground in a muddv tangle and the whole thing collapsing crash splash into the Oriel.