portside

Examples

• All

• I took a round from a sub on our portside deck.

  Greyhound (2020)

• The captain ordered everyone to assemble on the portside of the ship for the safety drill.

• Come on, let's get to those portside doors.

  Chupacabra Terror (2005)

• Everything changed for the worse when they had to cross Sheep Bay; they began taking on water over the bow and portside.

  Blog text (23)

• There's one out there on the portside.

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

• Lev looks out of the MIR's portside window.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Commander, there's something surfacing on the portside.

  The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

• I steered on course toward Vaduz Island, on a beam reach in a good wind off portside.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Both the number and the increased tonnage of the ships involved attest to the rapidly escalating portside activity.

  Academic text (2008)

• Austin spun around with his ears ringing, and through the haze of smoke, saw another attacker step boldly through the portside door.

  Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

L

larboard

vsportside

• Archaic

3 9.9

The left side of a ship or plane when you face forward

is the modern standard name used instead of the older term

Surface Forms

Etymology