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On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. quotations examples
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc. examples
(baseball) On base. examples
Into a team, group, or company. examples
(nautical) Alongside. examples
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane. quotations examples
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
Onto a horse. examples
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside. quotations
Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.
1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat