Meanings
nouncounterboarding (uncountable)
- uncountableThe prevention of hostile boarding of a vessel.
A savage din deafened the two counterboarding specialists before they had even made the open deck of the Leyte Gulf. The roar of the big guns, the detonation on the ship's stern, the eruption of fuel […]
2006, John Birmingham, Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1
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counterboarding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterboarding
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“counterboarding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterboarding. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterboarding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterboarding.
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