stern-board

It then made a stern-board, but before it could reach the bows the boatswain gave it a stroke with the axe which nearly gullyteened it; you know, shipmates, what that is.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Then we righted suddenly, came up into the wind with our sails slatting, and made a stern-board.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

Since then she had drifted, sometimes making a stern-board, sometimes going ahead a little, but nearly always drifting slowly shoreward, flogging her gear, making a great clatter of blocks.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

She offered him strings of blue and white shells, and a copper canoe with a stern-board of copper and a copper bailer.

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians 1920

_Fledgling_, struggling bravely, if wearily, upward to meet a wave, would stop half-way with a jerk and a sigh, the wave gouging along the deck -- breaking over the stern-board.

Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

Ten feet -- a plank wrenched clear of the mass and shot on ahead, ramming out the lifeboat's stern-board, above the water line.

Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

From the stern-sheets the dog barked at me joyously, wagging his tail, with his fore-feet on the edge of the stern-board.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Hendry Watty pulled in hand over fist; and in came the lead sinker over the notch, and still the line was heavy; be pulled and he pulled, and next, all out of the dead waste of the night, came two white hands, like a washerwoman's, and gripped hold of the stern-board; and on the left of these two hands, on the little finger, was a silver ring, sunk very deep in the flesh.

Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Together we balanced it on the gunwale, and with the help of the stern-board tilted it over.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Within the stern-board, in cut letters from which the cheap paint had scaled, was a name plain to read -- _Two Brothers_.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903