looardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

looard (not comparable)

1. (nautical) leeward
   • 1877, Charles W. Hall, Adrift in the Ice-Fields^[1]:

     So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.

   • 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete^[2]:

     "Keep away, boy--keep to looard.

   • 1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding^[3]:

     I heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop.