Associations to the word «Freeboard»

Wiktionary

FREEBOARD, noun. (nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
FREEBOARD, noun. The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
FREEBOARD, noun. The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
FREEBOARD, 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.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King