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broadside on

adv

Definitions

  1. sideways on.

    • The ship swung broadside on to the current of the river.
    • The rain had ceased now, but the wind was higher than ever, and once we were out of the shelter of Flax Bourton cutting we caught the full force of it broadside-on, straight off the Severn Sea.

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