broadside on

English

Adverb

broadside on (not comparable)

1. sideways on.

   The ship swung broadside on to the current of the river.

   • 1945 September and October, O. S. Nock, “Wartime Locomotive Working on the G.W.R.—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 258:

     The rain had ceased now, but the wind was higher than ever, and once we were out of the shelter of Flax Bourton cutting we caught the full force of it broadside-on, straight off the Severn Sea.

References

• Oxford Dictionary of English, 2005 edition.
• “broadside”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.