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overside

adj
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈsaɪd//ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌsaɪd/

Etymology

1880, from the phrase over the side (of a ship), equivalent to over + side.

  1. derived from *sēy-✻ — “to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”
  2. inherited from *sīdaz✻ — “drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”
  3. inherited from *sīd✻
  4. inherited from sīd — “wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”
  5. inherited from side
  6. compounded as overside — “over + side”

Definitions

  1. Located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship.

    • overside cargo
    • It is, of course, possible to work only to or from lighters in this way, and such working is not very general in this country, although a certain amount of such overside work is carried on in enclosed docks.

  2. On the opposite side.

  3. Over the side.

    • The cargo was dumped overside by the crew.
    • Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The side facing up or positioned above

      The side facing up or positioned above; the topside; surface.

      • […] that is, glued to the underside of one card and the overside of the next, thus keeping their edges close and parallel to each other, […]
      • While the overside of the tiles was well smoothed, the underside was in general left crude and rough.
      • This chapter contains some of the most humorous writing on the overside of the narrative, and the most serious on the underside.

    2. The reverse or opposite side.

      • the overside of the record

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA