Show The Word Starboard The word starboard appears to have come down from the earliest Saxons Anglo-Saxons who called that side of their Viking ships fro from which the steering oar protruded the which became corrupted corrupted corrupted cor- cor to starboard or even the of the tar Naturally enough according to a writer in the Chicago Tribune the opposite of the ship which was brought in contact with the jetty or wharf when loading for fear of breaking the or rudder became the lading board or larboard later changed to port because of the danger danger danger dan- dan ger of confusing larboard and starboard starboard star star- board when hearing was difficult during a storm The full rigged ship is seemingly a tangle of ropes every every ev ev- ery one of which is called martingale martingale mar mar- stay sheet line painter painter- anything th but a rope |