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

aborder +‎ -age

Noun

abordage m (plural abordages)

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

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