embarkation
em bor kay shuhn
- n the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
- From parish papers, school magazines, county journals, German intelligence culled many a tidbit telling about war factories, ports of embarkation, regiments at the front.
- This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation.
- From northwest Sumatra to a port of embarkation for Batavia they traveled in pony carts, spurred on by native tomtoms pounding out an air-raid warning.