What is the meaning of BROADS. Phrases containing BROADS
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1. One side of a vessel above the waterline. 2. All the guns on one side of a warship or mounted (in rotating turrets or barbettes) so as to be able fire on the same side of a warship. 3. The simultaneous firing of all the guns on one side of warship or able to fire on the same side of a warship.
Naval gunfire oriented towards the ends of the ship; the opposite of broadside fire.
When a ship or boat unintentionally swings around broadside to a wave.
1. Up through the 19th century, a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannons to be fired broadside. 2. On smaller vessels (of frigate size or smaller) up through the 19th century, the completely covered level under the upper deck, even though in such smaller ships it carried none of the ship's guns.
 Three card monte.
Broads is British slang for playing cards. Broads is British slang for credit cards.
 Playing cards. Ex. "Spreading the broads" = playing a game of cards)
  Playing cards, syn. Broads.
 A card Sharper
Stand the broads is British slang for to be duped, hoodwinked.
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A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
v. i.
To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
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A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.
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The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
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A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
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To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant.
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Widespread.
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A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
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Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
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A volley of abuse or denunciation.
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A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
v. t.
To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
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Spreading widely.
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A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
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A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
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A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.
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