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Meanings of abord in English

To approach and speak to, especially in an unfriendly way.

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Examples for "accost"
Examples for "accost"
1
The accost and the reply sounded like reports from the same pistol.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
2
You are the first to accost me for now three hundred years.
Washington Irving
3
I don't want to have that girl accost me in the street.
Notre-Dame de Paris
4
No attempt had up to that time been made to accost her.
Facing the Flag
5
The cactus punks watched Ori and Baron but did not accost them.
Iron Council
Usage of abord in English
1
Your 'abord', I must tell you, was too cold and uniform; I hope it is now mended.
Letters to His Son, 1752 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
2
Wee kept Sabbath abord.
Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
3
I fear the want of that air, and first 'abord', which suddenly lays hold of the heart, one does not know distinctly how or why.
Letters to His Son, 1751 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
Abord through the time