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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French abordage.

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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; []

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  1. ^ Brown, Lesley, editor (1933) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 6

French edit

Etymology edit

From aborder +‎ -age.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

abordage m (plural abordages)

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

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