leeboard 的定义
Nautical.
- either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
更多leeboard例句
- In rough water a centreboard must strain a boat more than a leeboard does.
- The pleasure of sailing was thus denied to me for several years afterwards, and all through my ignorance of the leeboard.
- As she heels to port she lifts her gleaming side and trails her free leeboard as a bird might stretch a tired wing.
- The leeboard, like a centre board, is of course intended to keep the canoe from sliding off when trying to beat up into the wind.
- The leeboard is a necessary attachment to the sailing outfit.