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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.





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"Aboard" Quotes from Famous Books



... 20, a U.S. newspaper reporter aboard an aircraft carrier in the North Sea was photographing a carrier take-off in color when he happened to look back down the flight deck and saw a group of pilots and flight deck crew watching something in the sky. ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt
... soft-voiced young man, dressed in the latest style, who spoke with a slight lisp. He hailed from the city of New York, and called himself Mortimer Plantagenet Sprague. As next to himself, Luke was the youngest passenger aboard the stage, and sat beside him, the two became quite intimate. In spite of his affected manners and somewhat feminine deportment, Luke got the idea that Mr. Sprague was not wholly destitute of manly traits, if occasion should call ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... disappeared. The next day was foggy: again a steamer was sighted, and for hours the shipwrecked crew strove to make themselves seen and heard through the fog, firing shots, hoisting their torn flag and shouting at the tops of their voices. They were seen at last, and taken aboard the Tigress, "more like ghastly spectres who had come up through hell," says one of the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various
... a small, bright-painted and half-decked skiff, sailed close in to the wall and let go his sheet to spill the wind. "Want to get aboard?" ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... growing very thick over her forehead, and dark eyelashes to the sweetest blue eyes in the world. Well, this young lady's papa was amongst those who came up to say civil things to the young fellow when he got aboard again, and to ask the honor—he said the HONOR—of his acquaintance. And when he came out of his stateroom in dry clothes, this infatuated old gentleman was waiting for him, and took him and introduced him to ...
— The Parlor-Car • William D. Howells


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