aground
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That same summer, he was angry about a story that carried this headline in The Times: “President and Family Run Aground in Sloop.”
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2015
Aground in a tropical hurricane at night last week, Captain Sundstrom was handed a maximum of trouble by the sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aground, on land.—To go ashore, to disembark from a boat.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Before Mr. Fenton could reply, Mrs. Cummings exclaimed: "Aground, did you say!"—And she scuttled away with greater alacrity than we had ever seen her evince on any former occasion.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
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