▪ I. ˈlee-board1 Obs.
Forms: 4 leburde, 6 leburd, lea boord, leebord.
[a. ON. hlé-borð, f. hlé lee n.1 + borð board.]
The lee-side (of a vessel).
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 3625 Ledys one leburde, lordys and oþer. 1570 Henry's Wallace ix. 56 Leidis on leburd [MS. luff burd]. 1582 N. Lichefield Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. lxxix. 161 The other Captayns being a Lea boord, and hearing the sound of the ordinance, did returne. 1585 Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 16 Graunt syne, o Neptune, god of seas profound, That readars think on leebord. |
▪ II. lee-board2
(ˈliːbɔəd)
[f. lee n.1 + board.]
A strong frame of plank, fixed to the side of a flat-bottomed vessel, which, being let down into the water diminishes her drift to leeward.
| 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 126 Of the Lee-boards, their use, dimension and place. 1732 Ld. Tyrawly in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 381 The Molettas..steer almost altogether by their lee-board. 1813 Gentl. Mag. June 522/1 With respect to keeping to windward, lee⁓boards and sliding keels will effect this. 1829 Marryat F. Mildmay ii, The lee-board of a Dutch schuyt. |