Definitions for leeboard

leeboard lee·board

Spelling: [lee-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈliˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Leeboard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in leeboard (abdeelor).

Definitions for leeboard

noun

  1. either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.

Origin of leeboard

1400-50; late Middle English: the lee side of a ship; see lee1, board

Examples for leeboard

The leeboard is a necessary attachment to the sailing outfit.

The pleasure of sailing was thus denied to me for several years afterwards, and all through my ignorance of the leeboard.

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.

With this arrangement the leeboard could be raised and lowered and also shifted to the lee side on each tack.

In rough water a centreboard must strain a boat more than a leeboard does.

Word Value for leeboard
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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