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; […]

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.

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