The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter. [1913 Webster]
A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time. [1913 Webster]
A volley of abuse or denunciation. [1913 Webster]
A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

broadside, n.
1 the firing of all guns from one side of a ship.
2 a vigorous verbal onslaught.
3 the side of a ship above the water between the bow and quarter.

Idiom

broadside on sideways on.

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THESAURUS

broadside

antiaircraft barrage, aside, askance, askant, asquint, bank, barrage, beam, bombardment, border, box barrage, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, burst, cannonade, cannonry, cheek, chop, coast, crabwise, creeping barrage, depthwise, drumfire, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, emergency barrage, enfilade, flank, fusillade, glancingly, hail, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jowl, laterad, laterality, laterally, many-sidedness, mortar barrage, multilaterality, normal barrage, on its side, on the beam, planking, profile, quarter, right and left, salvo, shore, shower, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, siding, sidling, spray, standing barrage, storm, temple, through, unilaterality, volley, widthways, widthwise

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ROGET THESAURUS

broadside

Attack

N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.

Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

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