Starboard

Word STARBOARD
Character 9
Hyphenation star board
Pronunciations /ˈstɑɹbɚd/

Definitions and meanings of "Starboard"

What do we mean by starboard?

The right-hand side of a ship or aircraft as one faces forward. noun

On the right-hand side as one faces forward. adjective

To or toward the right-hand side as one faces forward. adverb

Nautical that side of a vessel which is on the right when one faces the bow: opposed to port (larboard). See port. noun

Nautical, pertaining to the right-hand side, or being or lying on the right side, of a vessel.

To turn or put to the right or starboard side of a vessel: as, to starboard the helm (when it is desired to have the vessel's head go to port).

Toward the right-hand or starboard side.

That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port. noun

To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel. transitive verb

Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side adjective

The right hand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Starboard does not change based on the orientation of the person aboard the craft. noun

One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two. noun

To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel. verb

Located on the right side of a ship or aircraft adjective

Turn to the right, of helms or rudders verb

The right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose noun

The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.

One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Starboard

The word "starboard" in example sentences

Through the stupidity of the look-outs the next thing we knew was that she was off on the starboard quarter, and to windward of us, she having been on the _starboard_ tack all the while! ❋ Raphael Semmes (1843)

I should explain that the space under the topgallant forecastle was divided by a bulkhead running fore and aft into parts forming separate cabins, one called the starboard, and the other the larboard berths, with bunks built up on both sides, one above another, or rather, in two stories, to explain myself better. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Tracker pointed, off what I guess you would call our starboard bow. ❋ Cook, Glen (1985)

When the engines started up, the gorgeous picture swung around until it stood on what is technically called the starboard beam, whereupon one of the engineers called my attention to the fact that we had changed our course. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)

On the starboard were a number of guest rooms arranged in suites of parlour, bedroom, and bath, while at the crown of the arch was a large dining-room in which fifty persons could sit down to dinner comfortably. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"Very well, I will," said the other; and, calling the starboard watch, who were idling about and having a quiet caulk in the waist, he soon made them set about reducing the _Josephine's_ canvas -- there being no necessity yet for summoning "all hands," as there was not a breath of air stirring, while the sea had hushed its monotonous roll, calming down to the quiet of a mill-pond. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)

Off to the starboard was a white area of ice plain, from whose even surface rose mammoth forts, castles and pyramids of solid ice almost as real as though they had been placed there by the hand of man. ❋ Unknown (1912)

The long oarlike rudder was on the board or side of the ship to the right of the stern, called the starboard or steerboard. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)

Each watch falls in for inspection on its respective side of the deck -- that is, the starboard watch on the right side, the port watch on the left. ❋ Henry Cowling (1909)

It was not so clear a morning as the previous one, and a steamy wind on what at sea I should have called the starboard bow, as I pressed forward to the distant hill, had a curiously subduing effect on my thoughts, and filled the forest glades with a tremulous unreality like to nothing on our earth, and distinctly embarrassing to a stranger in a strange land. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The starboard and larboard got their names because the starboard was the side on which the steering oar was hung before the rudder was invented, and the larboard was the side where the lading or cargo came in. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

On the starboard was a stateroom for the captain; on the port a pair of frowsy berths, one over the other, and abutting astern upon the side of an unsavoury cupboard. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The moon was now on what a sailor would call the starboard bow -- i. e., to the right and ahead. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

The first mate's watch being known as the starboard and the second mate's as the port watch. ❋ Paul Boyton (1881)

The starboard is the captain's watch; though the second mate, when there is one, takes his place for duty, and the port is the mate's watch. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

He got up at once, and called his starboard fireman. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

The manner of arranging the boats in a ship of this character, is as follows: Three boats, ready fitted, are kept swinging in the cranes alongside the ship; these are called the starboard, larboard and waist boats. ❋ Unknown (1856)

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