starboard n 🔊

1. (aviation, astronautics, nautical) The right-hand side of, originally, a ship or other marine vessel, and now also an aircraft or spacecraft, when one is facing the front, or the bow or fore.
2. (by extension, nautical) One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.

starboard v

1. (transitive) To turn (the helm of a vessel) towards the starboard or right side, causing the vessel to turn to port or the left.
2. (intransitive)
   1. Originally, to turn the helm of a vessel towards the starboard or right side, causing the vessel to turn to port or the left.
   2. Now (chiefly), to turn a vessel to starboard or the right side; also, of a vessel: to turn to starboard or the right side. [...]

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The starboard (etymology 1, noun sense 1) of the pilot vessel Eyre berthed at Port Lincoln, South Australia.

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