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aboard

/əˈbɔɹd/ adverb B1
  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. · We all climbed aboard.
  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.
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and why have you such an air of sadness aboard?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 2 · C1
Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 2 · C1
It belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he’d say if he come ‘ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o’ times, but more especially when he has the drink.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 50 · B2

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