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 9780595252992), page 43:
 * seamen used the left or loadboard side for loading and unloading goods in port.