larboard
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| —n, —adj | |
| nautical a former word for port | |
| [C14 laddeborde (changed to larboard by association with starboard), from laden to load + borde | |
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Larboard
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
larboard
"left-hand side of a ship" (to a person on board and facing the bow), c.1300, ladde-borde, perhaps lit. "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
port (1). to avoid confusion of similar-sounding words. The O.E. term was bæcboard, lit. "back board" (see starboard).
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Example sentences
They left the land on their larboard, and let the sheet turn toward the land.
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