Citations:leeboard


 * 1833, George Crabb, Universal Technological Dictionary, page 47:
 * Bow (Mar.) the rounding parts of the ship's side on each side its head, distinguished by the starboard and leeboard, or weather and lee bow.
 * 1978, Joseph Needham, Colin A. Ronan, The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521315609), pages 84-85, quoting Song Ying-Xing in translation:
 * They also have in common 'waist-rudders' (i.e. 'leeboards' or strong plank frames let down into the water from the side of a ship to prevent a sideways drift to leeboard – the side sheltered from the wind) . ..