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Shipboard [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To go on shipboard or a shipboard is to go aboard; to enter a ship; to embark; literally, to go over the side . It is a peculiar phrase, and not much used. Seamen say, to go aboard or on board .

2. To be on ship board , to be in a ship; but seamen generally say, to go aboard or on board .

Shipboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The pland of a ship. [ Not now used .]

2. A boy that serves on board of a ship.

Shipboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.