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in⋅board

[in-bawrd, -bohrd]
–adjective
1. located nearer the longitudinal axis or center, as of an airplane: the inboard section of a wing.
2. located inside a hull or aircraft: a motorboat with an inboard engine.
3. (of a motorboat) having the motor inboard.
–adverb
4. inside or toward the longitudinal axis or center of a hull, aircraft, machine, etc. Compare outboard (def. 4).
–noun
5. an inboard motor.
6. a boat equipped with an inboard motor.

Origin:
1840–50; orig. phrase in board
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in·board   (ĭn'bôrd', -bōrd')   
adj.  
  1. Nautical Within the hull or toward the center of a vessel.

  2. Relatively close to the fuselage of an aircraft: the inboard engines.

n.   Nautical
A motor attached to the inside of the hull of a boat.
in'board' adv.
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