STERN-BOARD, noun [stern and board.] In seamens language, a loss of way in making a tack. To make a stern-board is when by a current or other cause, a vessel has fallen back from the point she had gained in the last tack.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.