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larboards

larboards is the plural of larboard.

Meaning of larboard

Noun

larboard (usually uncountable, plural larboards)

  1. (archaic, usually) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
    • […] harder beset
      And more endangered than when Argo passed
      Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks,
      Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned
      Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool steered.1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2
    Antonyms:
    starboard

Questions about larboards

What is larboards the plural of?
Larboards is the plural of larboard.

Words near larboards in the dictionary

  1. Laray
  2. larazotide
  3. larb
  4. Larbert
  5. larboard
  6. larboards
  7. larbs
  8. LARC
  9. larcener
  10. larceners
  11. larcenic

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