Talk:larboard

Etymology

Needs etymology. 24.29.228.33 05:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Citations of older form

• 1495, in 1896, Michael Oppenheim, Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII: 1485-8 and 1495-7, London Printed for the Navy records society, page 203:

  Shorte Devettes with Shevers of brasse . . . . . . ij

  Devettes standyng in the lowffelewes

  -j a sterbord an other a latebord

  ych of theym with a shever of Iron   ij

• 2002, Charlene Klima, Cherry Point, iUniverse (→ISBN), page 43:

  […] seamen used the left or loadboard side for loading and unloading goods in port.