Word Meanings - INBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

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• CARGOOSE
  A species of grebe ; the crested grebe.
• OUTBOARD
  Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• INSIDE
  Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.
• INBOARD
  Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• CARGO
  The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett. Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods only, and not
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• SUPERCARGO
  An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.