Obs. Forms: 4 leburde, 6 leburd, lea boord, leebord. [a. ON. hlé-borð, f. hlé LEE sb.1 + borð BOARD.] The lee-side (of a vessel).

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 3625. Ledys one leburde, lordys and oþer.

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1570.  Henry’s Wallace, IX. 56. Leidis on leburd [MS. luff burd].

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1582.  N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., lxxix. 161. The other Captayns being a Lea boord, and hearing the sound of the ordinance, did returne.

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1585.  Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 16. Graunt syne, o Neptune, god of seas profound. That readars think on leebord.

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