What is "portside"

Usage examples of "portside".

There were a number of identifiable air locks, one on each side up near the bow, one topside, one on the portside about two thirds of the way back, and one in the belly in the aft third.

Ilna knew there was a current because of what the sailors had told her and from the way bubbles of foam slowly drifted right to left, but Nabarbi and Tellura on the portside oars were compensating for it by taking longer strokes than their shipmates to starboard.

The diesel made a scant wake, but enough to hide the myriad of tiny bubbles that closed the gap toward his rudder, then disappeared torpedolike beneath his portside rail as he lounged at the tiller.

She and Saint Teresa were the madams of the two largest sensee houses in Portside, and they often traveled into Commons with their housekeepers and cooks.

Another working party picked its way along the Zaid-Dayan's outer hull, rigging detector wires and dishes to replace the damaged portside detectors.

One spurt bomb rack had vanished, and the portside propulsion tower was dented and holed.

Pralla Portside Consumables Monitor, I offer my apologies to you as well.

He braced a foot on the portside track cover and took hold of the grab iron welded to the side of the turret.

A dozen of Black Joke's sailors hurled the three-pronged grappling hooks high over the clipper's gunwale with the lines snaking up after them, and then heaved them up tight and made them fast to the portside cleats, and a swarm of seamen cheering wildly went up Huron, s stern , like a troop of vervet monkeys pursued into the trees by a hunting leopard.

Internal damage was minimal: minor injuries from the gravity flux, and loss of the portside visual monitors.

Even though the portside pods had not been as badly damaged as they’d originally thought, he insisted that the ship would not stand another long FTL chase.

Han glanced at the expanding circle in growing dismay, imagining the craft's intestinelike cofferdam flailing in space as it attempted to vacuum-seal against the Falcon's portside docking ring or dorsal hatch.

Portside, the towering Mount Garben — named after the senator who had done so much to smooth the expedition’s way through the intricacies of the Federated Sentient Planets’ bureaucracy — dominated the landscape, its cone suitably framed against the bright morning sky.

His portside ion engine was completely out of commission, its connections severed, with trailing cables from the power generator having fallen into other wiring, destroying he knew not how much additional equipment.

Hek Portside Hull Patcher, currently the Presider of the Fleet Congress, was in the middle chair.