freeboard

See also: free board

English

Etymology 1

Noun

freeboard (plural freeboards)

1. (nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
2. The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
3. The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.

Derived terms

• freeboard deck

Translations

nautical - vertical distance from waterline

• Danish: fribord n, dækshøjde c
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fribord n

  Nynorsk: fribord n

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Etymology 2

a freeboard

From being a skateboard with an additional degree of freedom of movement (yaw) and some additional rocking (roll) movement.

Noun

freeboard (plural freeboards)

1. A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.

Hypernyms

• skateboard

Related terms

• skateboard
• longboard

Coordinate terms

• snowboard
• skateboard

See also

• street luge
• roller ski
• inline skate

References

• Freeboard (skateboard) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Freeboard (nautical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sea ice thickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia