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Aboard   /əbˈɔrd/   Listen
preposition
Aboard  prep.  
1.
On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
2.
Across; athwart. (Obs.) "Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast."


adverb
Aboard  adv.  
1.
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
2.
Alongside; as, close aboard.
(Naut.):
To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of.
To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses.
To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore.
To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Aboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the pier of the Bangor boat lay the White Wings, guarded by a watchman, who saluted Merriwell as the boys went aboard. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish
... of December he with 225 men were put on board the Glasgow at New York to be carried to Connecticut for exchange. They were aboard eleven days, and kept on coarse broken bread, and less pork than before, and had no fire for sick or well; crowded between decks, where twenty-eight died through ill-usage and cold." (This is taken from the "History of ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... rattle and bustle all around; the blow of steam from the impatient boilers; the sharp, brisk orders of the junior officers; the rush of carriages with passengers, and the shouting of draymen anxious to get their loads aboard—all these sights and sounds were both felt and visible as a bright-looking young man, distinctly American to all appearances, alighted from a cab and walked up the steamer's gang-plank, followed by a porter and the driver with ...
— The Boy Nihilist - or, Young America in Russia • Allan Arnold
... order to conduct them to his province in the Philippinas Islands, he has exerted himself to do so, and will take the number of forty. He offers his petition to your Highness that you will be pleased to command that he shall accordingly be given what is necessary in order that they may go aboard and also what they need to convey them to Sevilla, since [his Majesty] by Don Francisco de Tejada, of his council, gave his royal word to provide him with it. [Without date ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XIV., 1606-1609 • Various
... had the sharpie (which is a flat sharp-nosed boat with two masts) ready with a little dingey tied on behind, and when the tide rose the party went aboard. First he headed well out into the bay, and then tacked to enter the river where the channel was deepest. The river, which was the same that ran through the woods above the Farm, was caught in a corner to make the mill-pond, and finally escaping, ran along for many miles until the bay opened its ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues


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