Crossword clues for starboard
starboard
- It's never left at sea
- Port alternative
- The right side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose
- Plane's right
- Ship’s right side
- Sailor tucked into special rations in part of ship
- Famous person to take lodgings right on the sea
- Right-hand side of a ship
- Right-hand side of a vessel
- Right side of a ship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starboard \Star"board`\, a. (Naut.) Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard shrouds; starboard quarter; starboard tack.
Starboard \Star"board`\, v. t. (Naut.) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English steorbord, literally "steer-board, side on which a vessel was steered," from steor "rudder, steering paddle," from Proto-Germanic *steuro "a steering" (compare German Steuer), from PIE *steu-, secondary form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet) + bord "ship's side" (see board (n.2)). Similar formation in Old Norse stjornborði, Low German stürbord, Dutch stuurboord, German Steuerbord.\n
\nEarly Germanic peoples' boats were propelled and steered by a paddle on the right side. The opposite side of the ship sometimes in Germanic was the "back-board" (Old English bæcbord). French tribord (Old French estribord), Italian stribordo "starboard" are Germanic loan-words.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The right hand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Starboard does not change based on the orientation of the person aboard the craft. 2 (context nautical English) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two. vb. (context nautical transitive English) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
WordNet
adj. located on the right side of a ship or aircraft
n. the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose [ant: larboard]
v. turn to the right, of helms or rudders
Usage examples of "starboard".
The raft had, somehow, worked its way over toward the starboard bank, thick with trees, and with a lurch and a scrape had run aground on a sandbar.
The clutter of the overhead with pipes and cables and ducts was cleared out, leaving a circular continuous display screen angling between the bulkheads and the overhead, and the starboard row of consoles that had been the attack center was gone, replaced by five cubicles.
The deck was on the uppermost level extending the full beam of the ship, the bulkheads to port and starboard angling with the curve of the hull.
CAPTAIN CAUTION 333 Sailors filled the waist of the barque from larboard to starboard bulwarks.
The yards, first loosed to spill the wind, were hauled round and bowsed tight so that he could pull away from the shore on a starboard tack.
Then Brennand gripped the valve of the starboard airlock, turned the control, watched the pressure gauge crawl from three pounds up to fifteen.
The thought had hardly formed in his mind before the first gun in the starboard broadside was firing, followed in turn by the bronchitic coughing of the rest of the guns.
Mary Graham and Longway made their way over the slowly rolling deck to stand at the starboard rail with MacKinnie.
When the icerigger was on a starboard tack, the lookout in the mainmast basket could see into such gaps in the rock wall.
But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried.
As the indicators max out, Cowboy looses a radar decoy missile and kicks the panzer into a shuddering left turn, its starboard side scraping soil as the panzer mashes its cushion down.
The paravane was streaming neatly outward to starboard in a fanning arc, sinking slowly beneath the surface with a red float above it to mark the place.
Picard stood slightly removed from the chaos in the starboard brig while Lieutenant Peart tried to rein in the prisoners, who were engaged in a frenzy of finger-pointing.
The Principessa dipped slightly to starboard from the weight of those coming aboard.
Keller wandered to the starboard side, where Quinones, hi a pair of safety goggles, used a soldering tool on the damaged plates.