boatside

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The side of a boat.

   • At that same moment Gregson, excited too, flattened him against the boatside so that he could not move.
   • And as they leaned over the boatside, and looked into the dead calm, up came the three bubbles, and broke in three small sighs.
   • Fish with teeth or those so heavy that they require more than a lip lock can be handled with a gill-cover grip when subdued at boatside.
2. 2

   Near or for boats.

   • There are low little bulging timber-houses to be soon seen; boatside dwelling-places for boatside men, wherein they can still exercise tarring and " shivering," and belaying, and some rat-catching, surely, and be quite at home.
   • While in an airport waiting for a flight, he read an article about a new firm named Boatside Services that was offering boatside fueling, polishing, oil changes and head pump-outs.
   • Boatside strikes on a figure eight are one of the most thrilling moments in muskie fishing.
3. 3

   Beside a boat.

   • When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.
   • In many catch-and-release muskellunge tournaments, musky length is measured boatside by a witness.
   • The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.

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