boatside

plural boatsides

1. The side of a boat.

   At that same moment Gregson, excited too, flattened him against the boatside so that he could not move.

   1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Cruise of the Breadwinner, page 41

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   And as they leaned over the boatside, and looked into the dead calm, up came the three bubbles, and broke in three small sighs.

   1952, Laurence Housman, The kind and the foolish, page 83

   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.

   2012, Jay Cassell, The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and .Techniques

1. not comparableNear or for boats.

   Boatside strikes on a figure eight are one of the most thrilling moments in muskie fishing.

   2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Muskie, page 62

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   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.

   1878, “A Walk below Bridge”, in All the Year Round, volume 21, page 545

   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.

   1999 April, Bill Lindsey, “Rite of Passage”, in Boating, volume 73, number 4, page 152

comparative more boatside · superlative most boatside

1. Beside a boat.

   The exhausted fish came boatside and was aptly secured in the net.

   2017, C.L. Marshall, Hunting & Fishing the Chesapeake

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   When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.

   1983, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volume 47, page 17

   In many catch-and-release muskellunge tournaments, musky length is measured boatside by a witness.

   2006, Wisconsin Natural Resources - Volumes 30-31, page 14