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larboard definition

lar·board (lär′bərd, -bôrd′)

noun

the left-hand side of a ship as one faces forward; port

Etymology: ME laddeborde, orig. lading side < OE hladan, to lade + bord, side: sp. infl. by starboard

adjective

on or of this side

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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