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n. (context horsemanship English) The left-hand side of a horse.
Usage examples of "near side".
To have detected the flotilla's emergence wave, the patrol ship had almost surely been on the near side of the system and outside the Oort Belt, which might have been coincidence, or .
On the near side a large number of buildings were under construction, the work going on even at this hour under the light of torches and lamps.
The policeman was advancing with his stately tread along the near side of the Square, and glancing up at the windows.
On the near side of the kitchen partition, two other men did something intense with polished stones and dice and a mahogany chute.
Now the near side of the field was almost empty, and a crowd had formed on the far side.
One group turned off on the near side, another rode past and turned off at the farther corner, each group with a packhorse carrying a ladder for laying against the fence, a ladder broad and strong enough for three men to cross abreast.
Random and Vialle stood on the near side of the bed, their backs to us.
Gray Beaver would not have camped on the near side of the Mackenzie, and White Fang would have passed by and gone on, either to die or to find his way to his wild brothers and become one of them,—.
Once on the far side most of the units took up the chase after the fleeing humans, but a few spread out as on the near side, in this case fanning out widely and ensuring that there were no humans in the immediate vicinity.
The purse dangled from the near side of Lund's belt, hanging next to Lightfingers as though it were a ripe fruit, begging to be picked.
You see, Flinx, one of the rhymes contained a mention of the race we believe successfully stopped the intrusion of a rogue collapsar approximately eight hundred thousand Terran years ago on the near side of the Shapely Center.
On the near side of the flashing area, at the bottom of the hill, was some sort of four-square structure looming darkly in the dusk.
A small, curly-headed child in a smudged tunic straddled the top of the wall, feeling for a toehold on the near side.
He rolled from the bed, caught Frank by his perfect suit coat and slammed him against the near side wall.