broadside
Noun
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Noun
broadside (plural broadsides)
- (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
- (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
- 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
- Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
- 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)
- Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.
- 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
- A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
- The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
- French: bordée
- German: Breitseite
- Italian: bordata
- Spanish: andanada
- Spanish: andanada
broadside (not comparable)
Verbbroadside (broadsides, present participle broadsiding; past broadsided, past participle broadsided)
- (transitive) To collide with something sideways on
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