abordage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French abordage.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɔːɹd.ɪd͡ʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɔɹd.ɪd͡ʒ/
Noun
abordage (plural abordages)
- (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; […]
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References
- 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
Pronunciation
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Noun
abordage m (plural abordages)
- the assault on a ship
- (nautical) collision, allision
Derived terms
- à l'abordage
Descendants
- → Polish: abordaż
- → Russian: аборда́ж (abordáž), аборда́жъ (abordáž)
- → Azerbaijani: abordaj
- → Kazakh: абордаж (abordaj)
Further reading
- “abordage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.