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Hence the left side was called port. [6] The Oxford English Dictionary cites port in this usage since 1543. [7] Formerly, larboard was often used instead of port. This is from Middle English ladebord and the term lade is related to the modern load. [3] Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the Royal Navy ordered that port be used ...
A tack is the windward side of a sailing craft (side from which the wind is coming while under way)—the starboard or port tack. Generally, a craft is on a starboard tack if the wind is coming over the starboard (right) side with sails on port (left) side. Similarly, a craft is on a port tack if the wind is coming over the port (left).
(UK) The person stroking the boat has their oar on the bowside (starboard or right) rather than the usual strokeside of the boat. Bowside (UK) The [starboard] or right side of a boat. Derives from the tradition of having the bow rower's oar be on the starboard or right side of the boat. Bucket rigged
News Corp said on Wednesday that investors rejected a proposal by activist investor Starboard Value to break the Murdoch family's grip on the publisher by ending a dual class voting structure.
On the starboard side, there are still minor remnants of the original seat. In sailing vessels, the head is the ship's toilet . The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the vessel.
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Port and Starboard are a pair of adult male orcas notable for preying on great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. [1] The duo are identified as having rare and distinct collapsed dorsal fins and they are named for the nautical terms , as Port's fin collapses left and Starboard's collapses right. [ 2 ]
Starboard called in October for News Corp to spin off its digital-real estate unit to unlock value for shareholders, a few days after Reuters was first to report that the activist investor had ...