What does freeboard mean?
Freeboard means (nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel, or the vertical distance from the waterline up to the top of the gunwale (of an open boat)..
Freeboard
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Meaning
(nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel, or the vertical distance from the waterline up to the top of the gunwale (of an open boat)..
Definitions by Sense
- (nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel, or the vertical distance from the waterline up to the top of the gunwale (of an open boat).
- The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
- The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
- A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
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- freeboards
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