Associations to the word «Leeboard»

Wiktionary

LEEBOARD, noun. (nautical) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope