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ON BOARD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
Synonyms:
aboard; on board
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Context examples:
Well, we took him on board, this man, and he and the skipper had some long talks in the cabin.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After the first two or three strange dogs had been downed and destroyed, the white men hustled their own animals back on board and wreaked savage vengeance on the offenders.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A dozen convicts, who descended with their pistols in search of him, found him with a match-box in his hand seated beside an open powder barrel, which was one of a hundred carried on board, and swearing that he would blow all hands up if he were in any way molested.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After sitting some time longer, a candle was obtained; but as there was still no appearance of tea, nor, from Betsey's reports from the kitchen, much hope of any under a considerable period, William determined to go and change his dress, and make the necessary preparations for his removal on board directly, that he might have his tea in comfort afterwards.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The new results from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and from the ROSINA instrument on board Rosetta, show that phosphorus monoxide is a key piece in the origin-of-life puzzle.
(Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks, ESO)
The king comforted her and said: Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain that the Count had remained on board the ship.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on board.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
What do you deduce from that? They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And each night when we come ashore in the boat, Mr. Wolf Larsen will be left a prisoner on board.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
