Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The side of a ship above the water line.
- noun All the guns on one side of a warship.
- noun The simultaneous discharge of these guns.
- noun A forceful verbal attack, as in a speech or editorial.
- noun A large sheet of paper usually printed on one side.
- noun Something, such as an advertisement or public notice, that is printed on a broadside.
- noun A broad, unbroken surface.
- adverb With the side turned to a given point or object; sideways.
- transitive verb To strike or collide with full on the side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With the broadside directed toward the point specified.
- Pell-mell; unceremoniously: as, to go or send broadside.
- noun The whole side of a ship above the water-line, from the bow to the quarter.
- noun A simultaneous discharge of all the guns on one side of a vessel of war: as, to fire a broadside.
- noun In general, any comprehensive attack with weapons of any kind directed against one point or object.
- noun A sheet printed on one side only, and without arrangement in columns; especially, such a sheet containing some item of news, or an attack upon some person, etc., and designed for distribution.
- noun Any surface resembling the side of a ship in breadth, etc., as a house-front.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
- noun A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
- noun colloq. A volley of abuse or denunciation.
- noun (Print.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also
broadsheet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical One
side of aship above thewater line ; all theguns on one side of awarship ; theirsimultaneous firing . - noun by extension A
forceful attack , be itwritten orspoken . - noun A large
sheet ofpaper ,printed on one side andfolded . - noun The
printed lyrics of afolk song orballad ; abroadsheet . - adverb
Sideways ; with the sideturned to thedirection of someobject . - verb transitive To
collide with something sideways on
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb collide with the broad side of
- noun the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
- noun all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
- noun a speech of violent denunciation
- noun an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- adverb with a side facing an object
- adjective toward a full side
- noun the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
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Examples
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The bulk of Mr. Booker's list of complaints reads like a broadside from the unions, which have been engaged in a bitter contract dispute with the Board of Ed. (Let's be clear, the union contract is struck with the Board, not the Superintendent, who is, so to speak, a 'hired hand'.)
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The bulk of Mr. Booker's list of complaints reads like a broadside from the unions, which have been engaged in a bitter contract dispute with the Board of Ed. (Let's be clear, the union contract is struck with the Board, not the Superintendent, who is, so to speak, a 'hired hand'.)
Archive 2007-01-01 Dan 2007
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Every real american knows full well what a complete disaster he is. broadside is wrong on the facts (act-free, in fact), wrong on ideas, wrong on American history, and jsut wrong.
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Hensher's broadside is part of a fad of anti-Narnia writing in Britain.
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Hensher's broadside is part of a fad of anti-Narnia writing in Britain.
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And almost at the first broadside from the English the American ship was severely crippled.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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At the same instant the shore batteries renewed their fire, and so eager, apparently, were the artillerymen to destroy the English ship that they seemed to care little though their own countrymen shared her destruction, for at least half the shot fell on board the ship that had just sustained such a punishing broadside from the English, which still further added to the confusion on board her.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886
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The Beauregard Battery, with three of its guns, also took part in a general melée of heavy artillery, and twice received a broadside from the enemy.
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The "London," "Albion," "Bellerophon," "Retribution," were all more or less severely mauled, as they poured in broadside after broadside, with incredible and incessant noise.
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The cheers were cut very short by a broadside from the English frigate, the shot of which crashed through the Frenchman's sides, tore up the planks, and carried off the heads of two or more of the cheerers.
True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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