STARBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does starboard mean? 

• STARBOARD (noun)
  The noun STARBOARD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: STARBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

• STARBOARD (adjective)
  The adjective STARBOARD has 1 sense:

1. located on the right side of a ship or aircraft

  Familiarity information: STARBOARD used as an adjective is very rare.

• STARBOARD (verb)
  The verb STARBOARD has 1 sense:

1. turn to the right, of helms or rudders

  Familiarity information: STARBOARD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("starboard" is a kind of...):

side (an extended outer surface of an object)

Antonym:

larboard (the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose)

Derivation:

starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)

• STARBOARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Located on the right side of a ship or aircraft

Similar:

right (being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north)

• STARBOARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn to the right, of helms or rudders

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "starboard" is one way to...):

channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)

Domain category:

navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

starboard (the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose)

 Context examples 

As he came up the port side we slipped past on the starboard; and from the poop we watched him turn and start aft on our track.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These last I broke through with a sudden jerk, and then regained the deck by the starboard shrouds.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If Ushant lay three leagues upon your starboard quarter, what would be your nearest English port?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Porpoises and dolphins, I believe, will be frequently observed athwart our Bows; and, either on the starboard or the larboard quarter, objects of interest will be continually descried.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sometimes I would put up my sail, and then my business was only to steer, while the ladies gave me a gale with their fans; and, when they were weary, some of their pages would blow my sail forward with their breath, while I showed my art by steering starboard or larboard as I pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a nice question, for the Cape de Verds were about five hundred miles to the north of us, and the African coast about seven hundred to the east. On the whole, as the wind was coming round to the north, we thought that Sierra Leone might be best, and turned our head in that direction, the barque being at that time nearly hull down on our starboard quarter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The only other evidence which I can adduce is from the log of the SS. Friesland, a Dutch-American liner, which asserts that at nine next morning, Start Point being at the time ten miles upon their starboard quarter, they were passed by something between a flying goat and a monstrous bat, which was heading at a prodigious pace south and west.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The butt rested against the outside of the port rail, while the top of the mast overhung the water far beyond the starboard rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Even then I was still so much interested, waiting for the ship to touch, that I had quite forgot the peril that hung over my head and stood craning over the starboard bulwarks and watching the ripples spreading wide before the bows.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was about to say that our metal was so light that I give you my word, gentlemen, that I carried my port broadside in one coat pocket, and my starboard in the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)