Usually means: Distance from waterline to deck.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. freeboard: Merriam-Webster
  2. freeboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freeboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. freeboard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. freeboard: Wordnik
  6. freeboard: Wiktionary
  7. freeboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. freeboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. freeboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. freeboard: Dictionary.com
  11. Freeboard (nautical), Freeboard (skateboard), Freeboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. freeboard: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. freeboard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freeboard: Encyclopedia

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Freeboard: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. FREEBOARD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. FREEBOARD: Power Engineering
  7. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (freeboard)

noun:  (nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
noun:  The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
noun:  The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
noun:  A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.

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