Aground \A*ground"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + ground.]

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. --Totten. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

aground adj : 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)] adv : with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship aground"

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Aground \A*ground"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + ground.]

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. --Totten.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)