arch. also 6–7 aboard, abord(e, abourd, abboord. [a. Fr. aborde-r to come to the side of, approach, land, f. à bord to the side of; see ABOARD adv. Cf. ACCOST v.]
† 1. To approach, come close to; to enter, land on, gain a footing upon. Obs.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xxxvi. 20. And the royall shyppe, yclipped Perfitenes, They dyd aborde.
1530. Palsgr., 415. I aborde: as one shyppe doth another, Jaborde. I aborde a shyppe, Je aborde.
1589. Ive, Fortif., 5. That an enemie may bee the more troubled to abourd the Fort. Ibid., 38. Approched, aborded, and surprised.
1611. Cotgr., Confiner, to abboord, adioyn, lye neere vnto.
1691. Ray, Wisd. God (1714), 201. The first Spaniards that aborded America.
2. To accost. Obs. or arch.
1611. Cotgr., Aborder, to approach, accoast, abboord.
a. 1628. F. Greville, Life of Sidney, 74 (1652). To abbord, either with question, familiarity, or scorn.
1841. Thackeray, Professor, ii. 176. He … aborded the two ladies with easy eloquence.
