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aboard /əˈbɔːd /adverb & preposition1On or into (a ship, aircraft, train, or other vehicle): [as adverb]: the plane crashed, killing all 158 people aboard figurative he came aboard as IBM’s new chairman [as preposition]: I climbed aboard the yacht...- Perhaps the customers have magically climbed aboard a ship.
- Most rail passengers felt uneasy as they climbed aboard their first train after the Paddington disaster.
- I climb aboard the train a minute or two before it pulls out of the station and find to my horror that my seat is taken.
1.1On or on to (a horse): [as adverb]: with Richard Migliore aboard, he won the cup at a gallop...- His last win was aboard a horse called Volvo at Punchestown.
- He has already won in Limerick on his other horse Ballytobin and aboard Kilcrea Shyan in Listowel two years ago.
- Photo number two shows local postman Owen McDonald aboard his horse and cart driving up Ballymanus Terrace.
1.2 Baseball On base: [as adverb]: putting their first batter aboard...- The jerk came up to bat looking grim and manly and got aboard with a bloop grounder down the third-base line.
- In the bottom of the fifth, the Kikuyus added an insurance run when Harold got aboard on an error and Demetrius slapped a routine grounder that went under the shortstop's glove and past the left fielder.
- The Reds nudged and shouldered at the lead, putting their first batter aboard in the third, fourth, and fifth innings but never quite bringing him around.
PhrasesOriginLate Middle English: from a-2 (expressing motion) + board, reinforced by Old French à bord. Rhymesabroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward |