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nearside

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See also: near side

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near + side

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nearside (plural nearsides)

  1. (British) The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road.
    • 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 286:
      An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...].
  2. (astronomy) The face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
  3. (US, historical) A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.

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