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LEEBOARD

Definition: LEEBOARD

LEEBOARD

Noun

1. A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEEBOARD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

leeboard

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LEEBOARD

Language Translations for "LEEBOARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

boayrd cheu fastee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eeboardlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LEEBOARD

Derivations

Words beginning with "LEEBOARD": leeboards. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LEEBOARD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flyboard, leapboard, ledebour, Lybardde, lybbarde, plyboard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LEEBOARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-o-r"

-1 letter: bleared, earlobe, labored.

-2 letters: aerobe, albedo, areole, balder, beadle, blared, bolder, bordel, boreal, dealer, doable, elodea, leader, loader, ordeal, reload.

-3 letters: abele, abler, abode, adobe, adore, alder, ardeb, baled, baler, barde, bared, beard, bedel, blade, blare, blear, bleed, board, bolar, boral, bored, bread, brede, breed, broad, debar, dobla, dobra, eared, elder, erode, labor.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-o-r"
 

+1 letter: banderole, bandoleer, belabored, leeboards, orderable.

 

+2 letters: banderoles, bandoleers, beclamored, beglamored, belaboured, deformable, deplorable, deportable, elaborated, endorsable, ponderable, recordable.

 

+3 letters: beglamoured, leaderboard, obliterated, overlabored, redoubtable, rhabdocoele.

 

+4 letters: adorableness, banderillero, boulevardier, breechloader, considerable, deliberation, demonstrable, discoverable, doubleheader, imponderable, leaderboards, overbalanced, overbleached, radiolabeled, rhabdocoeles.

 

+5 letters: banderilleros, biodegradable, boulevardiers, breechloaders, concelebrated, considerables, decarboxylase, decarboxylate, deliberations, doubleheaders, doublespeaker, imponderables, nondeferrable, nondegradable, nondeliberate, nonrefundable, radiolabelled, recommendable, wheelbarrowed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LEEBOARD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 45 42 4F 41 52 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    .    -...    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000101 01000010 01001111 01000001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#69 &#66 &#79 &#65 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0045 0042 004F 0041 0052 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4639393649355238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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