1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 2 In one Sheet in 4^to as also on a broad side of a Sheet.

1817 G. Chalmers Life T. Churchyard in T. Churchyard Chips conc. Scotl. 43 Richard Harvey..before 1563, had printed in a broadside, a decree..betwene Churchyarde and Camel.

1818 W. Scott Tales my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 263 The Broadside containing the last dying speech and confession of M. Murdochson.

1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxiii. 261 Many of the fabliaux and comic poems were issued as broadside ballads.

1932 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. xiv. 511 The Broadside Array. The simple broadside antenna array consists of a number of antennas spaced at uniform distances along a horizontal line and connected so as to be excited in phase.

1959 R. D. Davies & H. P. Palmer Radio Stud. Universe iii. 31 Aerials of large size can be constructed by connecting together large numbers of dipole or yagi elements. Such aerials are known as broadside arrays.

1744 P. Yorke & T. Birch Eng. Mercurie for 23 July 1588 2 [They] vigorously broadsided the Enemies sternmost Ships.

1834 Sporting Mag. July 155/2 The British oak of Mr. Mytton's constitution, broadsided as it had been for a series of years by the furious assaults of excess and excitement, and never once hauled into dock to be refitted.

1843 C. M. Sedgwick Let. 6 June in M. E. Dewey Life & Lett. C. M. Sedgwick (1871) 285 He moves in a belligerent spirit, waging war with classes and masses, boarding and broadsiding his fellow-creatures.

1872 ‘S. Mostyn’ Perplexity II. vii. 157 Certainly few could equal him in his power of broadsiding his audience with commonplace invective.

1914 Western Herald (Bourke, New S. Wales) 25 Nov. Then she was broadsided, heavy guns being concentrated by the flagship.

1939 Auckland Star 13 May (Week-end Pictorial section) 13/5 We are being bombarded with books and broadsided with cabled reports of inflammatory speeches, and the noise is deafening.

1850 P. Clay in Househ. Words 20 Apr. 89/2 The boat gave a heel to starboard, as if she had been broadsided by a tremendous wave.

1914 N.Y. Tribune 19 Oct. One rides along..in many-times-a-momentary dread of being broad-sided by a taxi cab charging recklessly from a side-street.

1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys vii. 86 Calvin..almost failed to stand on the brakes in time to keep from broadsiding a dilapidated ten year old Pontiac.

1993 Outdoor Canada Mar. 29/2 Dad and Harold, both pretty adept in fast water, came much closer to flipping when they broadsided a large rock in midstream.

2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 12 Mar. i. 14/2 The grief isn't as raw as in the early years, but it still comes in waves, broadsiding the couple when they least expect it.

2007 Independent 12 May (Mag.) 38/1 My eldest brother..had broadsided a number 52 bus on his Raleigh a few years earlier and ended up under the wheels and in hospital.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 455 Spikelets..inserted broad~side to the rachis.

1884 T. Speedy Sport in Highlands xiv. 231 As he was passing broadside he afforded an excellent shot.

1925 Univ. Chicago Press Man. Style (ed. 8) 143 Set long box-headings broadside (i.e., vertically) so as to read up from the bottom of the text page.

1948 Words into Type (Appleton-Century-Crofts) 539 A broadside table or illustration is one printed with the top at the left side of the page, requiring a quarter turn of the book to the right to be in position for reading.

1957 R. A. Hewitt Style for Print iii. 30 All broadside illustrations, whether printed with the text or inset, should have their legends on the right-hand side of the page, i.e. in the inner margin on a left-hand page and the outer margin on a right-hand page.