"leeboard" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1909, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, page 24",
          "text": "[…] on the port side a sofa bed was put up and fitted with a leeboard. On the starboard side a short seat with a folding cot above, which folded […]",
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          "ref": "2014, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, Open Road Media",
          "text": "Forward of the mizzenmast was an iron box in which the mainsheets worked, and to port and starboard were the leeboard winches, hand-worked.",
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          "ref": "2015, Tom Cunliffe, In the Wake of Heroes: Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe, Bloomsbury Publishing",
          "text": "I lowered the starboard leeboard. I sent Kester up forward with the binoculars. 'Any buoy,' I told him, 'just yell and point.'",
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        "A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway."
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        "(nautical) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway."
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          "sense": "board lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway",
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          "ref": "1896, Albert Scheible, “The Need of Uniform Voltage”, in The Electrical Trade, page 5",
          "text": "Even in complete reversals from starboard to leeboard in a high sea, no shocks, either electrical or mechanical, could be observed.",
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          "ref": "2004, Gayle C Avery, Andrew Bell, Martin Hilb, Anne E. Witte, Understanding Leadership: Paradigms and Cases, SAGE, page 212",
          "text": "[…] because the leeboard side could be easily unrigged to avoid damaging the rigging, while the starboard side would be required to safely navigate the vessel.",
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          "ref": "2010, George Sjouke Riemersma, 'Sa Wie It', page 85",
          "text": "Riek's berth was on the starboard side with two women, and mine was on the leeboard side with two men. One of the two men was a baron, […]"
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        "Port, larboard (the side of a ship opposite starboard)."
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        "(uncommon) Port, larboard (the side of a ship opposite starboard)."
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          "text": "Riek's berth was on the starboard side with two women, and mine was on the leeboard side with two men. One of the two men was a baron, […]"
        }
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      "sense": "board lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway",
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