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

Noun

abordage m (plural abordages)

The assault on a ship.
(nautical) collision, allision

Derived terms

à l'abordage

Further reading

“abordage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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