Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Aboard
adv. (old).—See quot.
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1748. T. DYCHE, A New General English Dictionary (5 ed.), s.v. ABOARD. In sports and games this phrase signifies that the person or side in the game that was either none, or but few, has now got to be as many as the other.
