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Definition of Overboard
1. Adverb. To extremes. "He went overboard to please his in-laws"
2. Adverb. From on board a vessel into the water. "They dropped their garbage overboard"
Definition of Overboard
1. adv. Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.
Definition of Overboard
1. Adjective. excessive; too much ¹
2. Adverb. over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overboard
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overboard
Literary usage of Overboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"At seven o'clock in the morning, it being our watch below, we were aroused from
a sound sleep by the cry of " All hands ahoy! a man overboard! ..."
2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"remember it as if it were yesterday. The men lost their heads with terror.
They painted the mare blue, in sight of town, and threw the preacher overboard, ..."
3. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1910)
"MAN Overboard. The most immediate danger to a man falling overboard from A steamer is
... A man falling overboard may feel this wash to a certain extent, ..."
4. Treatises on Average, and Adjustments of Losses in Marine Insurance by Robert Stevens, William Benecke, Willard Phillips (1833)
"The goods so thrown overboard, if recovered, be- Goodi thrown long to their former
proprietors, and must be return- overboard, if ed to them, ..."
5. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Étienne Montricla (1803)
"... a dreadful storm came on, which obliged them to throw all their merchandise
overboard ; this however not being sufficient to lighten the ship, ..."
6. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"At eleven o'clock the spare tiller was shipped, and the staves from the gun-room
got upon deck and thrown overboard, a new tiller-rope reeved and relieving ..."
7. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"... SHIPS AND THROWING CARGO Overboard. 1 Every one is deemed to be a pirate who,
belonging to any ship or vessel whatever, upon meeting any merchant ship ..."
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