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adjective

Inboard adj., adv.

(Naut.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard engine; an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

(Mech.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.

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Etymology of 'Inboard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself was a mere shell, scarcely capable of sustaining safely more than three persons, but with lines of speed, its sharp prow cutting the water like a knife blade. I shipped the useless rudder inboard, and chose my course from the stars. The north star was completely obscured by thick clouds, but the great dipper gave me my bearings with sufficient accuracy. To attain again to the west coast not far from where the ...

— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish

... rattle as the gang-plank moved inboard and was deposited on the deck. The girl uttered a little cry of dismay. Then suddenly her face brightened and she began to wave her arm to attract the attention of an elderly man with a red face made redder by exertion, who had just forced his way to the ...

— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse

... necessary, the box will accommodate itself to a change in the alignment of the shaft. In order that it may be free to move for this purpose it is not fitted with the usual fore and aft flanges. By this means any slight derangement, as in either the outboard or inboard bearing wearing down the fastest, is taken care of, the movement of the box on the inclined surfaces being for this purpose equivalent to the operation of a ball ...

— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose

... inboard, here," suggested Hoddan, "so I can come inside as before, transfer my crew without spacesuits, and leave my boat in your care until ...

— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... the dragons, or inboard handled the oars, And the tide of the sea cometh creeping along the stranger-shores, Till those golden dragons are floated, and their unmanned oars awash In the sandy waves of the shallows, from stem to tiller clash: Then setteth a wind from the shore, and the night is waxen a-cold, ...

— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

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