OVERSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overside mean? 

• OVERSIDE (adverb)
  The adverb OVERSIDE has 1 sense:

1. over the side of a boat

  Familiarity information: OVERSIDE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSIDE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Over the side of a boat

Context example:

Willie eased himself overside into the sea

 Context examples 

“Clear that raffle,” I answered, pointing to the tangled wreckage overside.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They elevated the end of the hatch-cover with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung overside, the dead man slid feet first into the sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When I returned from throwing them overside, he was talking to Harrison, whose honest yokel’s face was filled with fascination and wonder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the second dog-watch the sailors come on deck, stripped, and heave buckets of water upon one another from overside.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As we drifted closer the boat would rise on a wave while we sank in the trough, till almost straight above me I could see the heads of the three men craned overside and looking down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)