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Definition of Larboard
1. Noun. The left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose.
2. Adjective. Located on the left side of a ship or aircraft.
Definition of Larboard
1. n. The left- hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.
2. a. On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter.
Definition of Larboard
1. Noun. (obsolete nautical) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern; port side. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Larboard
1. the left-hand side of a ship [n -S]
Medical Definition of Larboard
1. The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; opposed to starboard. Larboard is a nearly obsolete term, having been superseded by port to avoid liability of confusion with starboard, owing to similarity of sound. Origin: 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, 8. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Larboard
Literary usage of Larboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"A ship, riding in a tide-way, with the wind two points on the starboard bow, and
so near the shore on the larboard side, that slit must be cast upon the ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"»8 vessel tn proximity on ber larboard or starboard side. 2. ... On my larboard
bow I had all of five or six miles of navigable ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... and she continued on that course, keeping the lights of the propeller one
point on her larboard bow. until she approached within three hundred ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"A few hours more carried us through, and when we saw the sun go down, upon our
larboard beam, in the direction of the continent ..."
5. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"Та cusí a Mp m the larboard tack, in a tide-tray, with the wind two points on
the starboard boic. A ship, riding in a tide-way, with the wind two points on ..."
6. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"You leave a large dry dock on your larboard hand, which, when you pass, you will
see a small island, covered with trees, which you leave on your starboard ..."
7. An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined by the High Court by William Tarn Pritchard, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1847)
"When on the larboard or starboard tack.* 65. Of two vessels, A. and В., beating
to windward on opposite tacks, it is the duty of the A., the vessel on the ..."
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