Crossword-Solution: LEEBOARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leeboard | n. | A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Movable plank on a hull | 1 answer |
| Navigational aid on a sailboat | 1 answer |
| Sailboat appurtenance. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LEEBOARD (5)
There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe--or raft, as they agreed to term her--cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying.
They at once, therefore, hauled their wind, but they had considerable difficulty in beating up toward the frigate, till they bethought them of lowering the junks' leeboard, when they found them sail wonderfully well to windward.
With this arrangement the leeboard could be raised and lowered and also shifted to the lee side on each tack.
This took the strain off the sides of the canoe that would have been created by the usual leeboard fitting.[3] Construction of such canoes ceased in the 1870's, but some remained in use into the present century.
The leeboard, like a centre board, is of course intended to keep the canoe from sliding off when trying to beat up into the wind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1968–2010).