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(nautical) Outside of a boat; in the water. examples
Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat. quotations examples
Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
Excessively; too much. examples
third-person singular simple present overboards, present participle overboarding, simple past and past participle overboarded
(transitive) To throw over the edge of a boat into the water. quotations examples
‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 565