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alongside, adv. and prep.|əˈlɒŋˈsaɪd|
[properly a phrase, along prep. + side.]
A. adv. Along or parallel to the side (of something expressed or understood).
a. simply, Close to the side of the ship.
1707Lond. Gaz. mmmmccclxxx/2 The Enemy would not come up a long Side. 1769Douglas in Phil. Trans. LX. 41 A case, filled with water from along-side. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iii. 13 The naked hulk alongside came. 1833Marryat Pet. Simp. (1863) 207 ‘I thought, Mr. Simple, that you knew by this time how to bring a boat alongside.’ 1851Dixon Will. Penn xvii. (1872) 149 The boat-men..used their oars as if they had been ordered to come alongside.
b. with of: Parallel to or close by the side of, side by side with; also fig.
1781Westm. Mag. IX. 167 We chased, and at noon got along-side of her. 1822T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 347 A new authority, marching independently along-side of the government. 1870Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 264 Alongside of a sheet of water. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 74 And the fig attains perfection almost alongside of the oak and fir. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 264 Alongside of him stood his maternal uncle. Ibid. V. xxiv. 385 Alongside of reliefs and wardships, the Danegeld was duly levied.
B. prep. [of omitted.] In a position parallel to; side by side with.
1793Smeaton Edystone L. §100 A boat..lying alongside the rock. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neigh. xxvi. 448 She only bowed and kept alongside her companion. 1875Buckland Log-Bk. 90 Hauled up alongside a barge. |