Word Study
shipboard
CIDE DICTIONARY
A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shipboard, n. (usu. attrib.) used or occurring on board a ship (a shipboard romance).
Idiom
on shipboard on board ship.
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