/ship"bawrd', -bohrd'/ , n.
1. Archaic.
a. the deck or side of a ship.
b. the situation of being on a ship.
2. on shipboard , aboard a seagoing vessel.
adj.
3. done, conducted, or designed for use aboard ship, esp. during an ocean voyage: a shipboard romance; a shipboard telephone.
[ 1150-1200; late ME shipbord (see SHIP, BOARD); r. ME shipesbord (see 'S 1 ) ]