aboard

On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.

Adverb

  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
    • We all climbed aboard.
    • As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train...
    • Trump said he signed the executive orders while aboard Air Force One on a return flight to Washington from Florida. - 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs...
  2. On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
    • to sling a saddle aboard
  3. On base.
    • He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.
  4. Into a team, group, or company.
    • The office manager welcomed him aboard.
  5. Alongside.
    • The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
    • The captain laid his ship aboard the enemy's ship.

Origin

From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.

Derived

all aboard fall aboard of liveaboard rollaboard

Preposition

  1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
    • We all went aboard the ship.
    • Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat. - 2012 March 5, William E....
  2. Onto a horse.
  3. Across; athwart; alongside.
    • Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. - 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat:

Derived

haul the tacks aboard to keep the land alongside one's ship to hug the shore to place close alongside to fight it