Leeboards is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 631 anagrams from letters in leeboards (abdeelors).
1400-50; late Middle English: the lee side of a ship; see lee1, board
In rough water a centreboard must strain a boat more than a leeboard does.
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.
The pleasure of sailing was thus denied to me for several years afterwards, and all through my ignorance of the leeboard.
The leeboard is a necessary attachment to the sailing outfit.