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LARBOARD-WATCH
LARBOARD-WATCH, (basbordes, or basborduis, Fr.) a division of a ship's company on duty, while the other is relieved from it.LEE
LEE, an epithet used by seamen to distinguish that part of the hemisphere to which the wind is directed, from the other part whence it arises; which latter is accordingly called to windward. This expression is chiefly used when the wind crosses the line of a ship's course, so that all on one side of her is called to-windward, and all on the opposite side, to-leeward: and hence,Under the LEE, implies further to the leeward, or further from that part of the horizon from whence the wind blows; as,
Under the LEE of the shore; i.e. at a short distance from the shore which lies to windward. This phrase is commonly understood to express the situation of a vessel, anchored, or sailing under the weather-shore, where there is always smoother water, and less danger of heavy seas, than at a great distance from it.
Milton alludes to this situation, in his second book of Paradise Lost: where,
" The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff,
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, pages 171 - 176, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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