stabboard
English
Noun
stabboard (uncountable)
- Eye dialect spelling of starboard.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, "Stern oars, there! heave her head to stabboard!" I heard that just as plain as if the man was by my side.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII