Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb On board a ship, train, aircraft, or other passenger vehicle.
- adverb At the side; alongside.
- adverb In or into a group, organization, or business.
- adverb Baseball On base.
- preposition On board of; on; in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Approach. Also spelled
abord . - On the deck or in the hold of a ship or vessel; into or upon a vessel.
- Alongside; by the side; on one side.
- On board; into.
- Upon; across; athwart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
- adverb Alongside.
- adverb to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of.
- adverb to set the courses.
- adverb to hug the shore.
- adverb to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.
- preposition On board of.
- preposition obsolete Across; athwart.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb part of a group
- adverb on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
- adverb on first or second or third base
- adverb side by side
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our meal that day was what we called aboard ship a ` stamp and go, 'all of us who were drafted being too excited to think much of eating -- all of us, that is, excepting Mick!
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Captain Hollinger -- for he assumed this title aboard the _Seamew_ -- looked at the two boys amusedly, then took each by an arm and propelled them toward the companionway.
The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney
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He was a good shot, too, and brought many a skin aboard under what the hunters termed impossible hunting conditions.
Chapter 18 2010
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Up and Over: While some dog vests now have grab handles, lifting a dog aboard is not difficult.
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Up and Over: While some dog vests now have grab handles, lifting a dog aboard is not difficult.
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It was my task to tally the pelts as they came aboard from the boats, to oversee the skinning and afterward the cleansing of the decks and bringing things ship-shape again.
Chapter 17 2010
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Weight, with a Leupold VX3 3. 5X-10X scope aboard, is 8 pounds even.
Rifles of Interest: Montana High Country Series Ridgeline 2009
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A few months later, he was again aboard a Huey, this time on a classified mission.
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Also coming aboard is Kate Klonick, most recently — like me, like Laura McGann — of TPMmuckraker.
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Foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, left, chats with John McCain aboard the candidate's chartered plane last week.
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