advb. phr. On board ship.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. Argt. (1643), 113. Noah prepares the Ark … His exercise a-ship-board.
1680. Trial Earl Castlemaine, in Howell, St. Trials (1816), VII. 1074. I went a shipboard in April.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. II. 471. At point to go a-shipboard.
