Lee-board

An a emblage of planks or plates (in shoe-sole form) fitted one on each side of small flat bottomed Ve els, serving to prevent as much as po ible, the drifting of the ve el to leeward; for this purpose when sailing by the wind, the one on the lee-side is always kept in the water, and the one on the weather-side, out of it. (") Lee-fange. A round iron bar, fitted thwartships on a ■weather deck, on which the sheets of a boom-sail, stay-foresail etc., travel.