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On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
A vessel is aground when there is not enough water to float her and some part of her hull or keel touches or becomes stuck on the bottom.
When the hull or keel of a boat touches the bottom
Resting on or touching the ground or bottom.
on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it"
with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship aground"
a vessel that is touching bottom and is unable to move
A vessel that is resting on the bottom or the rocks is said to be "aground"
when the boat hits the sand, rocks or any ground below the surface of the water
When a boat is in water too shallow for it to float in; the boat's bottom is resting on the ground.
A point in which a kayak or other water craft is stuck upon a sandbar or shoal, especially when not intended to be.
Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore.
Touching or fast to the bottom.
When a boat is stranded on the shore, or on the bottom of the body of water, it is said to have run aground.
Touching or stuck on the bottom.
When the hull or keel is against the ground
Stuck-usually on a shoal or rock-when you didn't intend to be.
When a boat has touched the bottom.
Bottom or keel of the boat being stuck on the bottom of the waterway BACKFIRE: Explosion of prematurely ignited fuel or of unburned exhaust gases in an internal combustion engine
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