starboard
pronunciation
How to pronounce starboard in British English:
UK [ˈstɑːbəd]
How to pronounce starboard in American English:
US [ˈstɑːrbərd]
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- Noun:
- the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose
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- Verb:
- turn to the right, of helms or rudders
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- Adjective:
- located on the right side of a ship or aircraft
Word Origin
- starboard
- starboard: [OE] Starboard is etymologically ‘steer-board’. The word originated as an Old English compound formed from stēor ‘paddle, rudder’ (a relative of the verb steer) and bord ‘board’. The early Germanic peoples propelled and steered their boats by means of a paddle on the right-hand side of the vessel – hence the use of starboard as the nautical equivalent of right.=> steer
- starboard (n.)
- Old English steorbord, literally "steer-board, side on which a vessel was steered," from steor "rudder, steering paddle," from Proto-Germanic *steuro "a steering" (compare German Steuer), from PIE *steu-, secondary form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet) + bord "ship's side" (see board (n.2)). Similar formation in Old Norse stjornborði, Low German stürbord, Dutch stuurboord, German Steuerbord. Early Germanic peoples' boats were propelled and steered by a paddle on the right side. The opposite side of the ship sometimes in Germanic was the "back-board" (Old English bæcbord). French tribord (Old French estribord), Italian stribordo "starboard" are Germanic loan-words.
Example
- 1. The lunar module 's starboard footpad and contact probe .
- 2. When everyone in the market is on the starboard side of the boat , you should watch out .
- 3. As the ice bumped along its starboard side , it punched holes in the ship 's steel plates , flooding six compartments .
- 4. In a nutshell : you don 't need to know your port from your starboard in order to help crew a boat .
- 5. The ship might have survived a head-on collision with an iceberg , but a sideswipe across her starboard side pierced too many of her watertight compartments .