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Webster 1828 Edition

Broad-side

BROAD-SIDE

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Noun.

[broad and side.] A discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.

1.

The side of a ship, above the water, from the bow to the quarter.

2.

In printing, a sheet of paper containing one large page,or printed on one side only.