Freeboard Definition

frēbôrd
noun
The distance from the main deck or gunwale to the waterline of a ship.
Webster's New World
The distance between normal water level and the top of a structure or mass that rises out of the water, such as a buoy, dam, or ice floe.
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Other Word Forms of Freeboard

Noun

Singular:
freeboard
Plural:
freeboards

Origin of Freeboard

  • Probably ultimately partial translation of Anglo-Norman franc bord land claimed outside the fence of a park or forest franc free bord, bort border border

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Freeboard Sentence Examples

  • Dives are usually made from the deck as she has a low freeboard returning using a removable dive ladder.

  • Small vessels, with thin masts, light rigging & sailcloth, & a lower freeboard need less wind & smaller waves.

  • Loads of built in buoyancy and a high freeboard make this craft ideal for offshore work.

  • In the case of earth banked slurry stores, the minimum freeboard has to be 750mm.

  • Other scholars have suggested that they are sun disks, as there was not enough freeboard for shields if the boat was paddled.

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Words Starting With

FFRFRE

Words Ending With

DRDARD

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