boatside
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boatside (plural boatsides)
- The side of a boat.
- 1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Cruise of the Breadwinner, page 41:
- At that same moment Gregson, excited too, flattened him against the boatside so that he could not move.
- 1952, Laurence Housman, The kind and the foolish, page 83:
- And as they leaned over the boatside, and looked into the dead calm, up came the three bubbles, and broke in three small sighs.
- 2012, Jay Cassell, The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and .Techniques:
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]boatside (not comparable)
- Near or for boats.
- 1878, “A Walk below Bridge”, in All the Year Round, volume 21, page 545:
- 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.
- 1999 April, Bill Lindsey, “Rite of Passage”, in Boating, volume 73, number 4, page 152:
- 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.
- 2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro TacticsTM: Muskie, page 62:
- Boatside strikes on a figure eight are one of the most thrilling moments in muskie fishing.
Adverb
[edit]boatside (comparative more boatside, superlative most boatside)
- Beside a boat.
- 1983, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volume 47, page 17:
- When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.
- 2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources - Volumes 30-31, page 14:
- In many catch-and-release muskellunge tournaments, musky length is measured boatside by a witness.
- 2017, C.L. Marshall, Hunting & Fishing the Chesapeake:
- The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.