starboard
nounEtymology
From Middle English sterbord, stere-bourd, stere-burd, from Old English stēorbord, from Proto-West Germanic *steurubord, equivalent to steer + board (“side (of a ship)”), referring to ancient ships with the steering oar set to the right (to accommodate right-handed crew). Ships had to dock on their left (port) side because the steering oar on the right would get in the way, which is how the left became known as the port side.
- inherited from *steurubord✻
- inherited from stēorbord
- inherited from sterbord
Definitions
The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow.…
The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.
- I see another vessel off the starboard side.
- We're on starboard tack, so the other boat has to give way.
One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
- to starboard the helm
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A list that shows messages starred in a community space.
- i also use carlbot for warnings, bans, mutes—and my starboard!!
A system that enables such a list.
- In case you don't know what a starboard is, it's basically a system used on Discord that whenever you react with a star emoji, the message is showcased inside of a #starboard channel.
- We used to do that until someone suggested adding a bot that had a starboard.
- You could use a form of starboard to put messages into a read only channel, but then anyone with react permissions could theoretically add to it
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for starboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA