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Starboard

noun

The right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose.

verb

Turn to the right, of helms or rudders.

adjective

Located on the right side of a ship or aircraft.

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"Starboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... squeaked and coughed, and the paddle-wheel at her stern kicked up a compost of sand and mud and yellow water that almost choked them with its crushed marigold scent. The helm swung over alternately from hard-a-starboard to hard-a-port; the stern-wheel ground savagely into the sand, first one way and then the other; and the gutter, which she had delved for herself in the bank, grew gradually wider and more deep. Then slowly she began ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... and went to the starboard rail with Lund, watching the preparations between fore and main masts for the competition, and telling Lund what was happening. Carlsen gave out some shotgun cartridges from cardboard boxes, twelve to ...

— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn

... turn about one of them big pines; bring it back, take a turn around the capstan, and lie to for the tide. Come high water, all hands take a pull upon the line, and off she comes as sweet as natur'. And now, boy, you stand by. We're near the bit now, and she's too much way on her. Starboard a ...

— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

... reclined upon the deck, the Zlotuhb drifting gently in a southerly direction. Land could be seen on the starboard bow, a faint strip along the ...

— The Last American - A Fragment from The Journal of KHAN-LI, Prince of - Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy • J. A. Mitchell

... "Hey! look to your starboard—you're running down a boat!" shouted Jack, dropping his wheel for three seconds in order to make a ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

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