A-bōard'1, adv.
[Prefix a, for on, and board.] Within a ship, vessel, or boat.
To fall aboard (Naut.), to strike a ship’s side.—Aboard main tack, an order to draw a corner of the mainsail down to the chess-tree. Totten.
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Aboard
A-bōard'2, prep.
- On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
- Across; athwart. [Obs. and rare.]
Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spencer.