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1716 No. 5475/3 He had ranged his Ships..a Broadside cross the River.
1800 A. Duncan (1804) II. 82 I desired them not to come broadside-to, but stern-on.
1840 R. H. Dana xv. 41 We drifted down, broadside on, and went smash into the Lagoda.