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noun

Broadside n.

(Naut.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.

A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.

A volley of abuse or denunciation. (Colloq.)

(Print.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; called also broadsheet.

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Etymology of 'Broadside'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Broadside" Quotes from Famous Books

... He had expected from Ledwith the last, grand, fiery denunciation which would have swept the room as a broadside sweeps a deck, and hurled the schemes of his mother and Lord Constantine into the sea. Sad, sad, to see how champagne can undo such a patriot! For that matter the golden wine had undone the entire party. Judy declared to her dying day that the alliance was toasted amid cheers before the close ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... was no imagination, no fancy of his disordered brain; for the moment before, the horse was end on to him; now, it had turned broadside, and was gazing back; and in his excitement Dyke whistled again with all the breath he could put ...

— Diamond Dyke - The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure • George Manville Fenn

... of a Broadside containing this poem is written by Swift: "Except the righteous Fifty Two To whom immortal honour's due, Take them, Satan, as your due All except the Fifty Two."—Forster. probably the number of those who opposed ...

— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... the schooner. The gun had been fired more as a reply of defiance to the pirate than with the hope of doing him any damage; but the shot had been well aimed—it cut the schooner's main-sail-yard in two and brought it rattling down on deck. Instantly the pirate yawed and delivered a broadside; but in the confusion on deck the guns were badly aimed, and none took effect. The time lost in this manoeuvre, added to the crippled condition of the schooner, enabled the West Indiaman to gain considerably on her antagonist; but the pirate kept up a well-directed fire with his bow-chasers, and ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... lovely places to steer in; they were deep, except at the head; the current was gentle; under the 'points' the water was absolutely dead, and the invisible banks so bluff that where the tender willow thickets projected you could bury your boat's broadside in them as you tore along, and then you ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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