Talk:larboard

Etymology

Needs etymology. 24.29.228.33 05:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Citations of older form

• 1495, in 1896, Michael Oppenheim, Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII: 1485-8 and 1495-7, London Printed for the Navy records society, page 203:

  Shorte Devettes with Shevers of brasse . . . . . . ij

  Devettes standyng in the lowffelewes

  -j a sterbord an other a latebord

  ych of theym with a shever of Iron   ij

• 2002, Charlene Klima, Cherry Point, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 43:

  […] seamen used the left or loadboard side for loading and unloading goods in port.

Moby-Dick

This appears in Moby-Dick, but I'm on mobile and too lazy to add the quote. If somebody's interested in adding it, it's in the second sentence of Chapter 9.

"Starboard gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!" 63.155.8.152 06:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)