fall aboard of (someone or something)

fall aboard of (someone or something)

obsolete In sailing, to strike the side of another ship. The two vessels, pitched and tossed as they were by the storm, fell aboard of one another and sank into the cold Atlantic Ocean.
See also: aboard, fall, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • brace aback
  • bracing
  • brace abox
  • brace around
  • brace round
  • brace about
  • luff up
  • round to
  • sail from (some place) to (some place else)
  • steady as she goes