aground Copy link • aground: Phr.: the light skiffs were a., leves cymbae sidebant, Liv.: a ship having got a., navis cum per vada haesisset, Tac.: they ran their ships a. at Chios, ad Chium naves ejecere, Liv.: to run a ship a. on shallows or rocks (vadis, scopulis) navem impingere, Quint. 4, 1, 61.