abordage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French abordage.

Pronunciation

Noun

abordage (plural abordages)

  1. (archaic) The act of boarding a ship as part of an attack. [since the mid 16th century][1]
    • 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae:
      But when we must proceed on one of our abordages, the heart of Francis Burke was in his boots; […]

References

  1. ^ Brown, Lesley, editor (1933), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 6

French

Etymology

From aborder +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

abordage m (plural abordages)

  1. the assault on a ship
  2. (nautical) collision, allision

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Crimean Tatar: abordaj
  • → Polish: abordaż
  • → Russian: аборда́ж (abordáž), аборда́жъ (abordáž) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

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