aboard

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  1. adverb On board a ship, train, aircraft, or other passenger vehicle.
  2. adverb At the side; alongside.
  3. adverb In or into a group, organization, or business: brought aboard two new designers.
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  • Bringing her aboard was as good as saying there were no safe refuges, and this was the last fight. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • As she pulled herself aboard, the BE2 gathered way, bouncing out of the shed, dragging Wendy with it. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
  • We hurried aboard, the door slammed behind us and, while we were all still walking up the middle ramp, the plane started racing down the runway. —  My Fifteen Years with General MacArthur.htm
  • A couple of characters stood on the wharf and watched as we climbed aboard, and two others untied us and shoved the bow off when Guido had the engine going and gave the sign, and we slid away. —  The Black Mountain
  • Only a few men were aboard, and I spent the next two hours wandering over the ship and staring into the water that caressed its sides as if each wave were in love with it. —  Cheif Red Fox
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  1. Middle English abord : a-, on; see a-2 + bord, ship (from Old English bord).

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  1. from Middle English on borde, from Anglo-Saxon on borde (dative), on bord (accusative): preposition on, on; bord, plank, side of a ship: see board. Cf. French aller à bord, go aboard; Dutch aan boord gaan, go aboard. The F. à bord has merged in the English phrase. Cf. aboard.
  2. from French abord, approach, from aborder, approach the shore, land, approach, accost (cf. à bord, on board), from à (from Latin ad), to, + bord, edge, margin, shore, from Dutch boord, edge, brim, bank, board (of a ship): see aboard.
 

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