starboard
IPA: stˈɑrbɝd
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.
- (nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
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Examples of "starboard" in Sentences
- It was splashed off the starboard bow.
- A small galley and vanity is to starboard.
- The starboard engine was burning furiously.
- Forward on the starboard side are the heads.
- By now the starboard engine was burning furiously.
- Starboard is the right side of the boat when facing the Bow.
- The canopy was hinged on the starboard base and opened sideways.
- Divers had to remove the tangled nets from the starboard screws.
- Fire enveloped the bridge and the ship listed heavily to starboard.
- Tracker pointed, off what I guess you would call our starboard bow.
- This was unusual since ships would normally pass starboard to starboard.
- The long oarlike rudder was on the board or side of the ship to the right of the stern, called the starboard or steerboard.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.