 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aground
adjective: 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)}]
adverb: with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship
aground"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aground \A*ground"\, adverb & a. [Pref. a- + ground.]
On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship
when its bottom lodges on the ground. --Totten.
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
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