overside

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈsaɪd/
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/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈsaɪd/ · /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌsaɪd/

Definition of overside

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship.
    “overside cargo”
    “It is, of course, possible to work only to or from lighters in this way, and such working is not very general in this country, although a certain amount of such overside work is carried on in enclosed docks.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship.
    “overside cargo”
    “It is, of course, possible to work only to or from lighters in this way, and such working is not very general in this country, although a certain amount of such overside work is carried on in enclosed docks.”
  2. (not-comparable)On the opposite side.

adv

  1. (not-comparable)Over the side.
    “The cargo was dumped overside by the crew.”
    “Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.”

noun

  1. The side facing up or positioned above; the topside; surface.
    “[…] that is, glued to the underside of one card and the overside of the next, thus keeping their edges close and parallel to each other, […]”
    “While the overside of the tiles was well smoothed, the underside was in general left crude and rough.”
    “This chapter contains some of the most humorous writing on the overside of the narrative, and the most serious on the underside.”
  2. The reverse or opposite side.
    “the overside of the record”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

1880, from the phrase over the side (of a ship), equivalent to over + side.

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