Meanings
adverblooard (not comparable)
- not comparablenauticalleeward
"Keep away, boy--keep to looard.
1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete2 more examples
So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.
1877, Charles W. Hall, Adrift in the Ice-FieldsI heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop.
1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding
Origin
Alteration of leeward.
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