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STARBOARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("starboard" is a kind of...):
side (an extended outer surface of an object)
Antonym:
larboard (the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose)
Derivation:
starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located on the right side of a ship or aircraft
Classified under:
Similar:
right (being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn to the right, of helms or rudders
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "starboard" is one way to...):
channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
Domain category:
navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
starboard (the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose)
Context examples:
We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by the weather-bowlings, and hauled them tight, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I read her name through the glasses as she passed by scarcely a mile to starboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Starboard a little—so—steady—starboard—larboard a little—steady—steady!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
So I lowered the big starboard anchor, giving plenty of slack; and by afternoon I was at work on the windlass.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Running off before the wind with everything to starboard, he came about, and returned close-hauled on the port tack.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Still the Ghost tore along, till the boat dwindled to a speck, when Wolf Larsen’s voice rang out in command and he went about on the starboard tack.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Satisfied with the honesty of his and the Kanaka’s sleep, Wolf Larsen passed on to the next two bunks on the starboard side, occupied top and bottom, as we saw in the light of the sea-lamp, by Leach and Johnson.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
My hands were full with the flying-jib, jib, and staysail; and by the time this part of my task was accomplished the Ghost was leaping into the south-west, the wind on her quarter and all her sheets to starboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat—a sealer’s boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
