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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofstarboard .
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Examples
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She faced him up-stream, her mother on his "stabboard," as she said, herself on his "labboard," and Hugh on her left, "labboardest of all."
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
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So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too — seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, “Stern oars, there! heave her head to stabboard!”
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"Er -- something like 'the stabboard pi-oogle,' which same is a seafarin 'term, and is worse," replied the Cap'n, with bland interest in this philological comparison.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too -- seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard.
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Unbrokenly green, yes, forever the one same green, were the low willow and cottonwood jungles of the creeping shores; but while the "labboard" shore was still Louisiana the "stabboard" was now her own native
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there.
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I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, "Stern oars, there! heave her head to stabboard!"
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