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freeboards

freeboards is the plural of freeboard.

Meaning of freeboard

Noun (1)

freeboard (plural freeboards)

  1. The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel, or the vertical distance from the waterline up to the top of the gunwale (of an open boat).
    • By the time the whole team and all its equipment were loaded on board, there wasn't much freeboard anymore, and if the weather had been worse we might have had to postpone the trip.
  2. The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
  3. The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.

Noun (2)

freeboard (plural freeboards)

  1. A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill course, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.

Questions about freeboards

What is freeboards the plural of?
Freeboards is the plural of freeboard.

Words near freeboards in the dictionary

  1. freebleeding
  2. freeblown
  3. freeboard
  4. freeboard deck
  5. freeboard decks
  6. freeboards
  7. Freebody
  8. freeboob
  9. freeboobed
  10. freeboober
  11. freeboobers

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