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abordage

abordage

English

Noun

abordage (plural abordages)

  1. (archaic) The act of boarding a ship as part of an attack. [since the mid 16th century][1]

References

  1. Brown, Lesley, editor (1933) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, published 2003, page 6

French

Etymology

aborder + -age

Noun

abordage m (plural abordages)

  1. The assault on a ship.

Derived terms