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counterboarding

counterboarding noun: the prevention of hostile boarding of a vessel.

Noun

counterboarding (uncountable)

  1. The prevention of hostile boarding of a vessel.
    • A savage din deafened the two counterboarding specialists before they had even made the open deck of the Leyte Gulf. The roar of the big guns, the detonation on the ship's stern, the eruption of fuel […]2006, John Birmingham, Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1

Origin of counterboarding

counter- + boarding

Questions about counterboarding

What does counterboarding mean?
Counterboarding means the prevention of hostile boarding of a vessel.
What part of speech is counterboarding?
Counterboarding is a noun.

Words near counterboarding in the dictionary

  1. counterblocks
  2. counterblow
  3. counterblows
  4. counterbluff
  5. counterbluffs
  6. counterboarding
  7. counterbond
  8. counterbonds
  9. counterbore
  10. counterbored
  11. counterbores

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