overside

ADVERB
  1. over the side of a boat
    Willie eased himself overside into the sea
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How To Use overside In A Sentence

  • In the next roll of the huge, glassy sea, the mizzen-mast fell overside. CHAPTER XV
  • A heavy swivel-hook, baited with fat salt-pork, was dropped overside; and by the time I had compressed the severed veins and arteries, the sailors were singing and heaving in the offending monster. Chapter 21
  • Finnish carpenter, hove overside as a Jonah by his fellows who believed that Finns control the winds; and Mike Cipriani and Bill CHAPTER XLVIII
  • I began experimentally by tossing small chunks of fat pork and crusts of stale bread overside. CHAPTER XLVIII
  • Willie eased himself overside into the sea
  • The captain, slouch-hatted and barelegged, with a rolling twist hitched the faded blue lava-lava tighter around his waist and spat tobacco juice overside. A SON OF THE SUN
  • Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines.
  • They followed his gaze, which passed across them to the main rigging, and saw what he saw, a brown hand and arm, muscular and wet, being joined from overside by a second brown hand and arm. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
  • Have you had a look overside to check our patches, Mr. Matthews?
  • Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines.
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