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- noun Plural form of
leeboard .
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Examples
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They were shallow boats without a deep keel, often rigged with leeboards, and were at risk of capsizing in a sudden squall.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They were shallow boats without a deep keel, often rigged with leeboards, and were at risk of capsizing in a sudden squall.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Their course for the first two miles was dead to windward; but the raft sailed remarkably near the wind, and held her own even better than her designer had believed to be possible -- the long, flat sides of the two pontoons seeming to act the parts of leeboards, and so preventing her from making any perceptible leeway.
The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886
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It is clear, that if both the guaras be thrust quite down, and held fast in a perpendicular direction, they will offer a broad surface towards the side, and thus, by acting like the leeboards of a river-barge, or the keel of a ship, prevent the balsa from drifting sidewise or dead to leeward.
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
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_leeboards_, such as are used even at the present day by Dutch ships.
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