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Examples
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A small cabin cruiser with Double-Six freshly painted on the sternboard chugged across the lake at a cautious speed.
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994
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Sally had paid him to put in a couple of new strakes and plane out a brand-new set of oars in place of the old ashen ones, and had painted a new name beneath the old one on the sternboard, so that now she was the _Indefatigable Woman_ for all the world to see.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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But to think of a sternboard at all, far more to think of profiting by one, were foreign to the schooner-sailor's mind.
The Wrecker 1898
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Whether the _Congress's_ helm on this interesting occasion was shifted for sternboard I never inquired.
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Under the combined impulses she, at 5.56, came up into the wind (3), lost her way, and, although her mainyard had been braced up, finally gathered sternboard; the upshot being that she lay paralyzed some seventy yards from the "Shannon" (3,
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