English

Noun
broadside

1. nautical One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
2. context|by extension A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
3. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
4. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Quotations
; forceful attack
1993 : 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. - Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)

Translations
trans-top|one side of a warship
Finnish: täyslaidallinen, täysilaidallinen
trans-bottom

Adverb
broadside

1. sideways|Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

Verb
to broadside

1. transitive To collide with something sideways on

References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913

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