leeboard

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.
2. noun Port, larboard (the side of a ship opposite starboard).

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

leeboards