Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The right-hand side of a ship or aircraft as one faces forward.
- adj. On the right-hand side as one faces forward.
- adv. To or toward the right-hand side as one faces forward.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical that side of a vessel which is on the right when one faces the bow: opposed to port (larboard). See port.
- Nautical, pertaining to the right-hand side, or being or lying on the right side, of a vessel.
- To turn or put to the right or starboard side of a vessel: as, to starboard the helm (when it is desired to have the vessel's head go to port).
- Toward the right-hand or starboard side.
Wiktionary
- n. The right hand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Starboard does not change based on the orientation of the person aboard the craft.
- n. nautical One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
- v. nautical, transitive To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to
larboard , orport . - adj. (Naut.) Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side
- v. (Naut.) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. located on the right side of a ship or aircraft
- v. turn to the right, of helms or rudders
- n. the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
Etymologies
- Middle English sterbord, from Old English stēor (“steer”) + bord (“side (of a ship)”). Ships had to dock on their left (port) side because the steering oar on the right would get in the way, which is how the left became known as the port side. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sterbord, from Old English stēorbord : stēor-, a steering; + bord, side of a ship. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Through the stupidity of the look-outs the next thing we knew was that she was off on the starboard quarter, and to windward of us, she having been on the _starboard_ tack all the while!”
“I should explain that the space under the topgallant forecastle was divided by a bulkhead running fore and aft into parts forming separate cabins, one called the starboard, and the other the larboard berths, with bunks built up on both sides, one above another, or rather, in two stories, to explain myself better.”
“Tracker pointed, off what I guess you would call our starboard bow.”
“When the engines started up, the gorgeous picture swung around until it stood on what is technically called the starboard beam, whereupon one of the engineers called my attention to the fact that we had changed our course.”
“On the starboard were a number of guest rooms arranged in suites of parlour, bedroom, and bath, while at the crown of the arch was a large dining-room in which fifty persons could sit down to dinner comfortably.”
“Very well, I will," said the other; and, calling the starboard watch, who were idling about and having a quiet caulk in the waist, he soon made them set about reducing the _Josephine's_ canvas -- there being no necessity yet for summoning "all hands," as there was not a breath of air stirring, while the sea had hushed its monotonous roll, calming down to the quiet of a mill-pond.”
“Off to the starboard was a white area of ice plain, from whose even surface rose mammoth forts, castles and pyramids of solid ice almost as real as though they had been placed there by the hand of man.”
“The long oarlike rudder was on the board or side of the ship to the right of the stern, called the starboard or steerboard.”
“Each watch falls in for inspection on its respective side of the deck -- that is, the starboard watch on the right side, the port watch on the left.”
“It was not so clear a morning as the previous one, and a steamy wind on what at sea I should have called the starboard bow, as I pressed forward to the distant hill, had a curiously subduing effect on my thoughts, and filled the forest glades with a tremulous unreality like to nothing on our earth, and distinctly embarrassing to a stranger in a strange land.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘starboard’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Airborn
Words and phrases from Kenneth Oppel's book, Airborn.
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kenzie's Words
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
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