outboard

[ out-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈaʊtˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

adjective

located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.

located farther from the center, as of an aircraft: the outboard end of a wing.

(of a motorboat) having an outboard motor.

adverb

outside or away from the center of a hull, aircraft, machine, etc.: The sail swung outboard.Compare inboard.

noun

an outboard motor.

a boat equipped with an outboard motor.

Nearby words

Origin of outboard

First recorded in 1815–25; out- + board

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Examples from the Web for outboard

They were in only two feet of water, and the outboard was stirring up mud at the stern.
The Flying Stingaree|Harold Leland Goodwin
It is provided with the girder type of frame, and with an outboard bearing mounted upon a stone foundation.
Steam Engines|Anonymous
This gives room for cotton bales, outboard the stanchions, to form a barricade.
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240|Anonymous
With all the speed of an outboard motor he sliced along it, and a moment later he dived again.
The Spell of the White Sturgeon|James Arthur Kjelgaard

Men began to cut the covers off the boats, and to swing some of them outboard.
Benita, An African Romance|H. Rider Haggard

British Dictionary definitions for outboard

outboard

/ (ˈaʊtˌbɔːd) /

adjective

(of a boat's engine) portable, with its own propeller, and designed to be attached externally to the sternCompare inboard (def. 1)

in a position away from, or further away from, the centre line of a vessel or aircraft, esp outside the hull or fuselage

adverb

away from the centre line of a vessel or aircraft, esp outside the hull or fuselage

noun

an outboard motor

a boat fitted with an outboard motor

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Word Origin and History for outboard

outboard

adj.

"situated on the outside of a ship," 1823, from out + board (n.2). In reference to motors, from 1909.