Aground

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aground \A*ground"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + ground.]
     On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship
     when its bottom lodges on the ground. --Totten.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  aground
       adj : on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat
             aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it"
             [syn: {aground(p)}] [ant: {sunken}, {afloat(p)}]
       adv : with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship
             aground"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "aground":
     anchored, beached, castaway, caught, chained, fast, fastened,
     fixed, foundered, grounded, hard and fast, held, high and dry,
     impacted, inextricable, jammed, marooned, moored, on the rocks,
     packed, set fast, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, stuck fast,
     swamped, tethered, tied, transfixed, wedged, wrecked