Leeboard

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of a pair of movable boards or plates attached to the hull of a sailing vessel to reduce downwind drift.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of two long flat pieces of wood attached one on each side of a flat-bottomed vessel (as a Dutch galiot) by a bolt on which it traverses.
    • Word Usage
    "There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe -- or raft, as they agreed to term her -- cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying."
     
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