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Definition of Leeboard
1. 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.
Definition of Leeboard
1. Noun. (nautical) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leeboard
1. a board attached to a sailing vessel to prevent leeway [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeboard
Literary usage of Leeboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey by Thomas Wallace Knox (1905)
"In other words, it is the leeboard that is down while the one to windward is up.
When the boat 'goes about' the board that has been down is hauled up, ..."
2. Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia by Herbert Warington Smyth (1906)
"8 to 10 ft. drop of leeboard below bottom. 7 ft. 6 in. width at bottom. 3000 to
4000 sq. ft. sail area. Cost—about £1100 for first-class barge. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"leeboard. Wooden or iron wings fixed to a stout bolt at the lore-end to the ...
When the after-end is lowered the leeboard stands up and down in the water ..."
4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"leeboard: (mit. min.) ground sill of a frame: (pont, 1 »hoe of a trestle leg;
... leeboard: d'ancre, shoe of an anchor; ground sill; d assemblage, (cone. ..."
5. Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on by Warington Baden Powell (1871)
"For ordinary pleasure cruising, the trouble of using a leeboard is hardly repaid
by the very small amount of " weather gauge" gained on short tacks; ..."
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