freeboard (plural freeboards)
(nautical) The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
From being a skateboard with an additional degree of freedom of movement (yaw) and some additional rocking (roll) movement.
freeboard (plural freeboards)
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.
• skateboard
• snowboard
• skateboard
Source: Wiktionary
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
