Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-BOARD'
A-BOARD', adv. [a for on and board. See Board.]
Within a ship, vessel, or boat. To go aboard, to enter a ship, to embark. To fall aboard, to strike a ship's side. Aboard main tack, an order to draw a corner of the main-sail down to the chess-tree. – Encyc. Mar. Dict.
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