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Show The Word "Starboard" The word "starboard" appears to have come down from the earliest Anglo-Saxons, who called that side of their Viking ships from which the steering oar protruded the "steorboard," which became cor-rupted cor-rupted to "starboard" or even the "sta'b'd" of the tar. NaturaUy enough, according to a writer m 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 eaor ogr rudder, became the lading board, laddebord, or larboard, later changed to port because of the danger dan-ger o'f confusing larboard and star-board star-board when hearing was difficult during a storm. The full rigged ship fs seemingly a tangle of ropes every ev-ery one of which is called mar-tingale, mar-tingale, stay, sheet, line, pamter-anything pamter-anything but a rope. |