2. Verb. (third-person singular of inboard) ¹
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Definition of Inboards
1. inboard [n] - See also: inboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inboards
Literary usage of Inboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... upon it to fetch a breath, a melancholy clattering of spare booms forward,
the scream and smoke of water hissing inboards through the scupper-holes, ..."
2. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"This mid-August event draws some of the fastest inboards and hydroplanes to the
East Coast for the three-day race series. Boaters race at Mill Creek near ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"... with their tails against the bulwarks and their heads looking inboards, so
that, to walk betwixt the double row of horns, with the air full of the sound ..."
4. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"The breaker cast the boy back inboards alive. He spake thus, ' Brimming cups are
on now, father. ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1881)
"In each oar- hole there is a slit to admit of the blade being passed through from
inboards. Thus, by this clever though simple contrivance, the difficulty ..."
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