larboard
Noun
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Noun
larboard (uncountable)
- (archaic, nautical) The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2,
- […] harder beset
- And more endangered than when Argo passed
- Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks,
- Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned
- Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool steered.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Descent into the Maelström”
- The boat made a sharp half-turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt.
- 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 17,
- Suddenly the foremost Martian lowered his tube and discharged a canister of the black gas at the ironclad. It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2,
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