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overside

Etymology 1 a. 1 located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship 2 being on the opposite side adv. over the side Etymology 2

n. 1 The side facing up or positioned above; the top side; surface. 2 The reverse or opposite side (of something).

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overside

adv. over the side of a boat; "Willie eased himself overside into the sea"

Usage examples of "overside".

He had plunged overside and, gaining a carack, began paddling madly away.

Those of his companions who had been called by oppositesPadrag and Crooclawhad been lost overside on the third day of the storm.

Wellearn slid overside, but he was aware how dangerous salt could be to someone with a weakened integument, so he wasted no time in striking out for shore.

Great ocean-going briqs and junqs had unloaded here, revealing marvels brought from half the world away, and sometimes odd bits and pieces that had proved unsalable had been tossed overside before the fleets returned to sea.

Fraij, do you remember a message from some youngling in that area saying her parents had gone overside into the psychoplanetary fad, and she needed arguments to combat them?

When dawn came with a heavy mist I woke Ann and went overside to shove the scow off.

I turned her smoothly so as not to catapult the old man overside, and pointed her bows toward Chesapeake Bay.

When she came back with it I had her hold one side of the mug, I held the other, and together we poured it overside as a libation to the Commodore.

The wreck was a vessel about forty meters long, rolling heavily, and as we closed I could distinguish a group of figures along her rail hacking and slashing at the cordage which still held her masts floating overside, pounding against her hull.

Then, telling us what to do, he dangled his foot overside and pretended to slip.

He let down a leather bucket overside and brought up water and bathed away the blood.

On hands and knees at times, he nosed along waterways and peering overside into the silken blackness of the smooth sea.

It had been when his punting-pole stuck in bottom-mud that young Bendle had fallen overside and never come up.

He glanced aloft at the spars of the Mary Rogers, and overside at the sea.

This they did at great risk on the perpendicular wall of the wreck, sending the mizzentopmast overside along in the general crash.