larboard

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About two hours afterwards we saw very high land in front of us to the leeward, which we supposed at first was Fairhill,[445] an easy mistake to make, as we had made our latitude 59° 48´, but we soon saw other land in front on the starboard, and we now discovered that the land to the larboard was the rock Falo, and that on the starboard was Fairhill, which agreed very well with our latitude.

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  1. noun See port2.
  2. adjective On the port side.

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  • There is a lurch to larboard, then a lurch to starboard, with a sort of “shiver-my-timbers” interlude. —  The Lady of the Decoration
  • When a piece of timber was intended for the larboard side, it would be marked thus - "L." —  American Chronicle
  • A piece for the larboard side forward, would be marked thus - "L. F." —  American Chronicle
  • About two hours afterwards we saw very high land in front of us to the leeward, which we supposed at first was Fairhill,[445] an easy mistake to make, as we had made our latitude 59° 48´, but we soon saw other land in front on the starboard, and we now discovered that the land to the larboard was the rock Falo, and that on the starboard was Fairhill, which agreed very well with our latitude. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
  • Of these the chief mate commands the larboard, and the second mate the starboard. —  Two Years Before the Mast
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  1. Alteration (influenced by starboard) of Middle English laddebord : perhaps laden, to load; see load + borde, side of a ship; see starboard.

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  1. Early modern English also larboord (also leereboord, in connection with and accommodated to steereboord, starboard); prob., with irreg. alteration of d to r by assimilation of the form to that of the associated starboard, from Middle English laddebord (found only once), perhaps for *ladebord, literally the ‘lading-side’ (the side on which, in the absence of any reason to the contrary, the cargo is received), from lade, a load, literally a carrying (confused with the unrelated verb lade, from Anglo-Saxon hladan, lade), + bord, board, side: see lade, lade, load, load, and board. The Anglo-Saxon term was bæcbord: see etymology of backboard. It is not clear why this term, which remains in other Teutonic tongues, gave way in English to larboard. Cf. starboard (ult. from AS, steórbord, from steór, steer, rudder, + bord, side). The supposition that larboard stands for *lower-board, i. e. left side (Dutch laager, lower, left; cf. English obsolete higher, right), is untenable; and the statement that larboard and starboard are derived, respectively, from the (supposed) Italian terms quella borda, ‘that side,’ questa borda, ‘this side,’ is gross nonsense.
 

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/ˈlɑrboʊrd; by sæɪlɑrs/
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