Broadside \Broad"side`\, n.
1. (Naut.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the
bow to the quarter.
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2. A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship,
at the same time.
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3. A volley of abuse or denunciation. [Colloq.]
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4. (Print.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or
printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
broad-side \broad-side\ v. t.
to collide with the broad side of. her car broad-sided mine
Syn: broadside.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
broadside
adj : toward a full side; "a broadside attack"
n 1: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet)
intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular
to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill,
broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway]
2: a speech of violent denunciation [syn: tirade, philippic]
3: all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
4: the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern; "the ship was
broadside to the dock"
5: the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a
warship
adv : with a side facing an object; "the train hit the truck
broadside"; "the wave caught the canoe broadside and
capsized it"
v : collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine"
WordNet (r) 2.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "broadside":
antiaircraft barrage, aside, askance, askant, asquint, bank,
barrage, beam, bombardment, border, box barrage, breadthwise,
broad side foremost, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, burst,
cannonade, cannonry, cheek, chop, coast, crabwise,
creeping barrage, depthwise, drumfire, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise,
emergency barrage, enfilade, flank, fusillade, glancingly, hail,
hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jowl, laterad, laterality,
laterally, many-sidedness, mortar barrage, multilaterality,
normal barrage, on its side, on the beam, planking, profile,
quarter, right and left, salvo, shore, shower, side, sideling,
sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, siding,
sidling, spray, standing barrage, storm, temple, through,
unilaterality, volley, widthways, widthwise
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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