starboardside
English
Etymology
Noun
starboardside (plural starboardsides)
- The starboard side of a boat.
- 1967, Ernest D. McRae, The West German research vessel W̲a̲l̲t̲h̲e̲r̲ H̲e̲r̲w̲i̲g̲:
- The net is taken in by repeatedly strapping off lengths of the net that are hauled forward alternately from the portside and starboardside; the pile of netting in the foreground is made from successive bights of the net resulting from this procedure.
- 2012, D. Josephus Jitta, The Renovation of International Law, →ISBN:
- It is obvious that the reasonable principles do not require a merchant ship to bear a green light at her starboardside and a red light at her portside, but if each State were to regulate the colour and the place of the lights with unlimited sovereignty, and without regard for the uniformity, the regulation would be a danger instead of a measure of precaution.
Adjective
starboardside (not comparable)
- On the starboard side.
- 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 96:
- Said from where he landed he must have fallen from the starboardside ladder to the catwalk outside the wheelhouse.
- 2011, Roger G. Smith, Guppy Pilot, →ISBN, page 141:
- Detachment 36 went to the USS Randolph, which was just out of the yard with its her new conversion, (Steam cats, Tacan, Hurricane bow and Angled deck with starboardside mirror) but she had won the AirLant Safety trophy ...
Adverb
starboardside (comparative more starboardside, superlative most starboardside)
- Toward or on the starboard side.
- 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614:
- Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated
- 1979, Joseph A. Donahue, Tin cans and other ships: a war diary, 1941-1945, page 236:
- We went starboardside to the A077 and fueled, the Alabama on her other side.