Inboard

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  • adjective. Within the hull or toward the center of a vessel.
  • adjective. Relatively close to the fuselage of an aircraft.
  • noun. A motor attached to the inside of the hull of a boat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In mech., toward the inside; toward the main center or center-line: as, an inboard stroke of the piston; an inboard bearing.
  • Within the hull or interior of a ship or boat; also, in the middle part of the hold of a ship: as, stow the freight well inboard.
  • Within the rail or bulwarks; toward or nearer to the center: as, to draw the sail inboard.
  • In the interior of a ship or boat; being within the hull or hold: as, inboard cargo: opposed to outboard.
  • Not projecting over the rail or bulwarks: as, an inboard spar or sail.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard
  • From without inward; toward the inside.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. within a ship
  • adjective. nearer the hull (as opposed to outboard)
  • noun. an engine located within the hull of a ship
  • noun. a boat with such an engine
  • verb. to discount a product to sell a service.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft
  • Word Usage
    ""Aviation Week," which is a weekly journal here in the United States reporting today that air force tracking, ground-based air force tracking cameras, at about 60 seconds before the plane exploded -- in other words when it was still largely intact in the skies over Arizona and going into Texas, that these cameras showed serious structural damage to the inboard, what's called the inboard leading edge of the left wing."
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