starboardside

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noun

The starboard side of a boat.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounstarboardside (plural starboardsides)

plural starboardsides

  1. The starboard side of a boat.

    The net is taken in by repeatedly strapping off lengths of the net that are hauled forward alternately from the portside and starboardside; the pile of netting in the foreground is made from successive bights of the net resulting from this procedure.

    1967, Ernest D. McRae, The West German research vessel W̲a̲l̲t̲h̲e̲r̲ H̲e̲r̲w̲i̲g̲
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    It is obvious that the reasonable principles do not require a merchant ship to bear a green light at her starboardside and a red light at her portside, but if each State were to regulate the colour and the place of the lights with unlimited sovereignty, and without regard for the uniformity, the regulation would be a danger instead of a measure of precaution.

    2012, D. Josephus Jitta, The Renovation of International Law, →ISBN
adjectivestarboardside (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOn the starboard side.

    Said from where he landed he must have fallen from the starboardside ladder to the catwalk outside the wheelhouse.

    2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 96
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    Detachment 36 went to the USS Randolph, which was just out of the yard with its her new conversion, (Steam cats, Tacan, Hurricane bow and Angled deck with starboardside mirror) but she had won the AirLant Safety trophy ...

    2011, Roger G. Smith, Guppy Pilot, →ISBN, page 141
adverbstarboardside (comparative more starboardside, superlative most starboardside)

comparative more starboardside · superlative most starboardside

  1. Toward or on the starboard side.

    We went starboardside to the A077 and fueled, the Alabama on her other side.

    1979, Joseph A. Donahue, Tin cans and other ships: a war diary, 1941-1945, page 236
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    Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated

    1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614

Origin

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Chicago

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