LARBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does larboard mean? 

• LARBOARD (noun)
  The noun LARBOARD has 1 sense:

1. the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

  Familiarity information: LARBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

• LARBOARD (adjective)
  The adjective LARBOARD has 1 sense:

1. located on the left side of a ship or aircraft

  Familiarity information: LARBOARD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

larboard; port

Hypernyms ("larboard" is a kind of...):

side (an extended outer surface of an object)

Antonym:

starboard (the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose)

• LARBOARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Located on the left side of a ship or aircraft

Synonyms:

larboard; port

Similar:

left (being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north)

 Context examples 

Took larboard watch eight bells last night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Porpoises and dolphins, I believe, will be frequently observed athwart our Bows; and, either on the starboard or the larboard quarter, objects of interest will be continually descried.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On her larboard quarter lay the two dark galleys, which had already hoisted sail, and were shooting out from Freshwater Bay in swift pursuit, their double line of oars giving them a vantage which could not fail to bring them up with any vessel which trusted to sails alone.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes I would put up my sail, and then my business was only to steer, while the ladies gave me a gale with their fans; and, when they were weary, some of their pages would blow my sail forward with their breath, while I showed my art by steering starboard or larboard as I pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Starboard a little—so—steady—starboard—larboard a little—steady—steady!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)