nearside

plural nearsides

1. UKThe side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road.

   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; [...].

   1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 286

2. astronomyThe face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
3. UShistoricalA streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.