| English |
| starboard |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Adverb
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| Variant |
Starboard side
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| Phraseology |
To starboard: “It also includes some thoughtful features such as a nonskid platform mat, a deep telescoping ladder to starboard and a rope locker to port”. RrecK112
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| Definition |
The right-handed side of a vessel, as viewed from aft.
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| Definition source |
Rglok668
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| Context |
With the only boarding gate starboard aft, you’ll have to hustle when docking shorthanded. The bowrail prevents you from going through the windshield, to the foredeck and onto the dock.
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| Context source |
RrecK706
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| Figure source |
EU
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| Subject field |
Motoryacht
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Descriptions and measures
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| Sub-field (level 2) |
Descriptions
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| it |
A dritta
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| Reliability code |
3
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| Note |
It is generally accepted to be a corruption of “steer-board”, the board or oar which projected into the sea from the starboard quarter of old vessels and by which they were steered before the invention of the hanging rudder. RgloK668
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