Reading
Shortcuts
Home
All Articles
Read from Another Site
Sources
Wikipedia
Simple Wikipedia
VOA Learning English
Futurity
The Conversation
MIT News
Harvard Gazette
Cambridge News
YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
Topics
Technology
Engineering
Business
Economics
Human
Health
Energy
Biology
Nature
Space
Log in
Sign up
1.72
History
Add
larboard
noun
[ ˈlɑːbɔːd ]
• archaic term for port3.
Origin:
Middle English ladebord (see lade1, board), referring to the side on which cargo was put aboard. The change to lar- in the 16th century was due to association with starboard.