leeboard

Noun

leeboard (countable and uncountable, plural leeboards)

1. (countable) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.
   • […] on the port side a sofa bed was put up and fitted with a leeboard. On the starboard side a short seat with a folding cot above, which folded […]1909, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, page 24
   • Forward of the mizzenmast was an iron box in which the mainsheets worked, and to port and starboard were the leeboard winches, hand-worked.2014, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, Open Road Media, →ISBN
2. (uncommon) Port, larboard (the side of a ship opposite starboard).
   • Even in complete reversals from starboard to leeboard in a high sea, no shocks, either electrical or mechanical, could be observed.1896, Albert Scheible, “The Need of Uniform Voltage”, in The Electrical Trade, page 5
   • […] because the leeboard side could be easily unrigged to avoid damaging the rigging, while the starboard side would be required to safely navigate the vessel.2004, Gayle C Avery, Andrew Bell, Martin Hilb, Anne E. Witte, Understanding Leadership: Paradigms and Cases, SAGE, →ISBN, page 212