inboard, adv., prep., and a. Naut.
(ˈɪnbɔəd)
[Properly a phrase, in prep. + board n. V: cf. on board, etc. For form and sense cf. inland.]
A. adv. Within the sides of a ship or vessel; also, towards the centre of the vessel. Also transf.
| 1830 J. F. Cooper Water Witch III. vii. 216 Assured of the position of his enemy, he returned in-board. 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick III. xlix. 306 Two of them clutched the gunwale..and..hurled themselves bodily in⁓board. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xi. (1856) 83 It passes inboard through a block. 1863 Sat. Rev. 437 At every successive collision the eager spectators on paddle-boxes and other elevated standing-points were in danger of being knocked off. Luckily, those who were upset managed to fall inboard. 1894 Times 27 Mar. 11 Each leaf [of the Tower bridge] over⁓hangs the water 100ft. The shaft or pivot on which the leaf hinges is placed 13ft. 3in. inboard, and beyond this the short arm of the leaf extends 49ft. 6in. 1897 Kipling Seven Seas, Anchor Song, Up, well up the fluke of her, and inboard haul! 1912 Belloc This & That xxxviii. 284 We picked up the little buoy..and we got it in-board. 1958 Engineering 28 Mar. 393/1 Movable projectors are housed in the two cylindrical frameworks of the dumb-bell assembly in⁓board of the star globes. 1962 S. Carpenter in Into Orbit 161 You make sure the abort handle is inboard and locked. 1963 Times 12 Feb. 15/6 Inboard-mounted disc brakes. 1967 Autocar 5 Oct. 7/2 The Triumph 2000 port face is ‘inboard’ of the holding-down studs. 1971 Times 16 Feb. 8/6 The unsprung weight has been reduced by mounting the front and rear suspension units inboard. |
B. prep. Inside, within (a vessel). Cf. aboard B, board n. 14 b.
| 1864 Atkinson Stanton Grange 2 A jerked pebble fell inboard the fractious vessel. |
C. adj. Situated within or towards the centre of the vessel; interior; in quot. 1898 said of a ‘sea’ that has washed inboard. Also, applied to parts of vehicles, aircraft, etc.
| 1847 Webster, Inboard cargo. c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 126 Inboard, within the ship, as the inboard works, &c. 1876 C. H. Davis Polaris Exp. i. 29 New bulkheads and inboard works. 1886 Forest & Stream 13 May 316/3 The Hampton flattie is best described as a beamy sharpie with an ‘inboard jib’. 1893 Funk's Stand. Dict., Inboard stroke of the piston. 1898 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 377 This inboard sea gurgled gently. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., In mech., toward the inside; toward the main center or center-line: as, an inboard stroke of the piston; an inboard bearing. Ibid. s.v. Profile. Inboard profile, in ship-building, a plan which shows the internal arrangements of a vessel by a longitudinal vertical section at the centerline. 1921 Rudder July 5 Even in large sailing boats the use of an inboard engine is sometimes not advisable. 1936 Discovery Dec. 380/1 We were five boats in all, some inboard launches, others with outboard motors, which passed the inspection of the river police. 1945 Times 30 June 4/5 A new type of drive couples the engines to contra-rotating airscrews, 16 ft. in diameter. Those driving the inboard engines can be reversed on landing to act as brakes. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway iii. 66 Stop the inboard engines [of the aircraft] and turn back. 1951 Yachting Monthly Oct. 202 Her modest inboard-cutter sail plan is easily handled by two. 1956 Loomis Hotspur Story 183 With her new inboard rig Hotspur is now a single-headsail cutter. 1957 M. Swan Brit. Guiana 202 In the old days when the mining men, the pork-knockers, went up the river they would paddle against currents which an inboard engine can now only just fight. 1959 E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 12) 19/2 Inboard brakes, that is to say brakes acting on the axle shafts. 1971 Power Farming Mar. 57/3 A unique feature is the individual shaft bottom drive to each cutting disc, relieving the strain on the inboard drive components compared with other designs where the cutters are powered in train. 1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 9/3 The inboard portions of the belts are short to prevent the lap belt from slipping over the hip bone onto the stomach, where the belt might cause serious injury in an accident. |
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Add: D. The adj. used ellipt. as n. An inboard motor; a boat equipped with this. orig. and chiefly N. Amer.
| 1929 Motor Boating Feb. 440/1 An engine which might be termed a portable inboard is the new Van Blerck, Jr. 1939 Ibid. Feb. 72/2 Many a sail boat owner, having experienced the exasperation and even danger of spending hours in a dead calm, gratefully welcomed this new inboard. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 38/2 (Advt.), New Inboards and Outboards. 1979 Chemical Week 24 Jan. 15/3 Glass-fiber reinforced polyester construction accounted for 98.65{pcnt} of all inboards. 1986 Waterski Internat. June 9/1 A new inboard has been added to the Skipjack Marinecraft's range of inboard ski boats. |