forcing one's way aboard
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One, the boarder, walks up the gangplank and then thumps the person standing at the top of the gangway. This poor chap is then in no state to stop the boarder from boarding the ship.
GF..
The boarder has forced himself onto the ship... He has attacked the ship's crew and the ship..
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"to force one's way aboard" means "to move forward by using force to pass people (moving them aside, killing them when they are in your way, etc.) and try to get aboard"
(cross-posted with GF)
(cross-posted with GF)
Understand it those ways only in cases where physical force (usually armed force) is used to get aboard a ship -- as, for instance, was done by the pirates in the waters off Somalia.
Otherwise, the boarding of a ship by a boarder has no connotation of force or violence; it's just what ordinary people do when they are going for a cruise, for example.
I don't think we call cruise passengers "boarders", MuttQuad. I have heard the verbs used "board/embark, disembark" when giving instructions but I think it would be very rare to find a case where boarder meant anything other than someone who was unwelcome on board.
I am going to board at Dover, but there will be additional boarders at Le Havre. I do agree, thorough, that hostility is often implied.
I think "boarders" would be avoided, in my experience, even in that sentence.
"I am going to board to Dover but there will be additional passengers boarding at Le Havre."
"I am going to board to Dover but there will be additional passengers boarding at Le Havre."
