starboard

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Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line.

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  1. noun The right-hand side of a ship or aircraft as one faces forward.
  2. adjective On the right-hand side as one faces forward.
  3. adverb To or toward the right-hand side as one faces forward.

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  1. Middle English sterbord, from Old English stēorbord : stēor-, a steering; see stā- in Indo-European roots + bord, side of a ship.

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  1. Early modern English also starboord, steereboord; from Middle English sterebourde, stereburde, from Anglo-Saxon steórbord (= Middle Dutch stierboord, stuyrboord, Dutch stuurboord = Middle High German stiurbort, German steuerbord = Icelandic stjōrnborthi = Swedish Danish styrbord), from steór, a rudder, paddle, + bord, side: see steer, n., and board, n. Hence (from Teutonic) Old French estribord, stribord, French tribord = Spanish estribord, estribor = Portuguese estibordo = Italian stribordo, starboard.
  2. from starboard, n.
  3. from starboard, adjective
 

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/ˈstɑrboʊrd/
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