larboard - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • quarter: The Pique next ran foul of the Blanche's larboard quarter, and made several attempts to board.
  • side: The three masts went over the larboard side and the ship fell on the other side with her gunwale under water.
  • tack: At forty minutes past eleven P.M. we ranged alongside of him on the larboard tack, and received his broadside.

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