freeboard

Examples

• All

• The upper portion of the net frame accounts for the distance from the water to the freeboard of the vessel (Fig. 6).

  Academic text (1995)

• For all his faith in Mainadieu, Father Jerome knew she couldn't make it, not in a rising gale with forty men lowering her freeboard to inches.

  Fiction book (1994)

• There is about one inch of freeboard.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Our freeboard is so low that it took little effort to tumble him into the boat after that.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Compared to the fighting ships, the knorr was shorter, broader of beam, and with a higher freeboard.

  Academic text (1996)

• These skiffs had the greatest beam and lowest freeboard amidships, which made it easier for the "hooker," the man who hooked the sponges from the bottom with a special hooking device.

  Academic text (1998)

• In the 1930s, the vessels were redesigned to be larger, with deeper drafts, flying bridges, pump-spray systems, and greater freeboard forward to give them better seaworthiness (June 1951).

  Academic text (1993)

• The boat's high freeboard kept us safe from splashes while we were fishing.

• With a low freeboard, this canoe is more susceptible to taking on water in rough waves.

• The new design of the yacht features increased freeboard for better stability in choppy seas.

Antonyms

S

submersion

1 6.2

Putting something completely under water or another liquid

Compounds

F

freeboard deck

• Specialized

8.6

The top watertight deck on a ship used to measure the ship's height above water

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology