Crossword clues for inboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inboard \In"board`\, a. & adv.
(Naut.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard engine; an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.
(Mech.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.
Wiktionary
1 (context nautical English) within a ship 2 nearer the hull (as opposed to outboard) n. 1 an engine located within the hull of a ship 2 a boat with such an engine v
to discount a product in order to increase sales
WordNet
adj. located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft; "the inboard flaps on the wing" [ant: outboard]
Usage examples of "inboard".
Her inboards told her this was hydrogen peroxide and catalase, combining in shaped rear chambers.
Again the smell of slow-match filled the air as the tubs were placed alongside the guns, though the men had strict orders to keep their cannon inboard, bowsed tight against the gun ports.
The others had gone inboard and unsuited when Quent finally finished clearing the bleeder shaft.
For a moment Jack fixed the glowing spray as it was whirled inboard and then across the face of the foresail by the currents from the jibs and staysail, and then he turned his eyes westwards, where the planet was as low on the horizon as she could be.
A large, handsome lapstrake inboard launch sat strapped on a heavy duty boat trailer.
And it seemed very likely, for he stood there perfectly straight, almost at attention, his hands loosely by his sides, as the three crated coffins were hoisted inboard.
The battens in those rows weren't of the free-sliding type in the inboard rows but were hinged at the top and were designed to lift upwards and inwards: with their lower halfs jammed by the boxes in the inner rows, this was quite impossible.
Edge and Yount took the job of driving the wagons one by one to the ship's side and there unhitching the horses, while the dockhands attached grapple cables between wagon and boom, and the donkeymen on deck worked a steam capstan to haul each wagon up and swing it inboard.
A green light began to strobe inboard of the raised encabulator bousing, then blurred.
A Harpoon air-to-surface missile was mounted on the right inboard wing station, station four.
The net swooped and the crab was caught, pulled inboard, and dumped into a bushel basket with one fluid motion.
Murgatroyd thought at first they were fishing rods, but later learned they were outriggers to hold the outer lines clear of the inboard lines and prevent tangling.
And sometimes,' and Ferrill shuddered,'the riders are grappled and pulled inboard.
The force of the explosion had gone outward through the hull breach, and the heat flash in the compartment hadn't been enough to overcome the failsafes on those racked inboard.
The rating manning the tube's inboard end started to come to attention, but Honor waved for him to stand easy and started for the lift with her quick, long-legged stride while her henchpeople scurried after her.