Talk:larboard
Latest comment: 16 years ago by 24.29.228.33 in topic Etymology
Etymology
[edit]Needs etymology. 24.29.228.33 05:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Citations of older form
[edit]- 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.