boarding party

noun

a group of persons who board a vessel, especially to attack, seize, or search it.

First recorded in 1880–85

The boarding party found Scud missiles hidden in bags of cement.

A moment later the door banged behind the discomforted boarding party.

Boarding party went aboard and told crew to abandon ship, then opened up sea-cocks and exploded demolition charges.

This gun was then trained on the boarding party from the privateer with the happiest results.

"That case is my personal, private property," said he, as soon as it was in the hands of the chief officer of the boarding-party.

As Mayrant came aboard, he was mistaken for the leader of a boarding-party, and run through the thigh with a pike.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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