Larboard

Quick meaning: Larboard is a noun meaning (archaic, nautical) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.

Meaning

(archaic, nautical) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.

Example Sentences

"It means to turn to larboard."

The boat made a sharp half-turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt.

The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter.

[…] harder beset And more endangered than when Argo passed Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks, Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool steered.

Word Forms

• larboards

Synonyms for larboard

Depending on context, synonyms include port, backboard, leeboard, left.

Antonyms for larboard

Common opposites include starboard, right.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include port, left, scuppers, leeboard, oarlop, over.

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