Broadside: Definition and part of speech

Broadside

  1. n. A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; — called also broadsheet.
  2. n. The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
  3. n. A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
  4. n. A volley of abuse or denunciation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.