To accost. (French, aborder, to accost.)
“Iʹll board her, though she chide as loud
As thunder.”
Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, i. 2.
(See also Hamlet, ii. 2.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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