freeboard
Noun
Meaning
(nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
freeboard (plural freeboards)
A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
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Quarstein, 2010, p. 106 While the design of Monitor was well-suited for river combat, her low freeboard and heavy turret made her highly unseaworthy in rough waters.
Marathon The marathon event consists of each skier having to ski on all 6 pieces of equipment – Single ski, Double skis, Single, Single finless, Double finless, a freeboard (a ski without bindings), and a fence paling.
Riverboats are generally of shallow draft, being broad of beam and rather square in plan, with a low freeboard and high topsides.
The new design had a sleek graceful appearance, less sheer, less freeboard, lower bulwarks, and smaller breadth.
Reed gave these ships a superstructure to increase seaworthiness and raise the freeboard of the gun turrets so they could be worked in all weathers.
This increased freeboard allowed another innovation: the freeing port, and the artillery associated with it.