Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of a pair of movable boards or plates attached to the hull of a sailing vessel to reduce downwind drift.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of two long flat pieces of wood attached one on each side of a flat-bottomed vessel (as a Dutch galiot) by a bolt on which it traverses. When the vessel is closehauled the board on the lee side is let down, reaching below the keel, and when the ship is listed over by the wind it resists the tendency to drift too fast to leeward.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.
Examples
“There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe -- or raft, as they agreed to term her -- cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying.”
“While the vessel was on the starboard tack, the side kept him snug; but, when they wore her, of course he had no leeboard to keep him in.”
“They at once, therefore, hauled their wind, but they had considerable difficulty in beating up toward the frigate, till they bethought them of lowering the junks 'leeboard, when they found them sail wonderfully well to windward.”
“Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt.”
“As a keen sailor, he recognised a niche in the market in 1959, and the result was the open two-man leeboard boat called the Flying Dutchman.”
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Sea/Water
keel, crest, ripple, curl, roll, easting, yaw, woold, orlop, trill, deck, yare and 19 more...
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