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ˈwater-side
1. The side or brink of water; the bank or margin of the sea, or of a river, stream, or lake.
In dialects or periods in which a water means spec. either ‘a river’ (water n. 12 c), or ‘a lake’ etc. (water n. 12 b), this sense remains in the combination. In early use water-side was often simply equivalent to water's side: cf. quot. c 1375, where the rel. pron. refers to watir as a separate word.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 129 The medewe..Beet right on the water syde [Fr. la praerie..Tres au pié de l'iaue batoit]. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxix. (Placidas) 410 Til he com til a watir-syd, þat depe was & wele wyd. c1400Destr. Troy 13466 Oft went þat wegh to the water syde, The Sea for to serche. c1420Contn. Brut 388 Ser Philippe Leiche..was logged betwene þe watir of Sayne and þe abbey,..And þe Baron of Carew was loggid on þe watir syde. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 149 For weying of the same..& careyng of hit to the waterside in Hampton viijd. 1535Coverdale Ps. i. 3 Soch a man is like a tre planted by the water syde. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 127 At this tyme, the water of the Thames sprang so high that it drowned many houses about the water syde. 1607Dekker & Webster West-w. Hoe ii. iii, At some Tauerne neare the water-side. 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5353/10 A Large Dye-house at the Waterside.., to be Sold. 1796F. Burney Camilla ix. i, [They] came down in a superb new equipage to the water-side. 1833Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv. iv, For ere she reach'd upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died. 1840Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 256 Whose premises were between the High-street and the water-side. 1855Hare Cases Chancery X. 298 The offices of deputy day oyster meters, had..been the subject of sale and purchase,..on payment of a fine to the oyster meters in chief, or yeomen of the water⁓side. 1885L'pool Daily Post 4 Feb. 4/8 Hundreds..assemble at the dock gates in the hope of obtaining employment at the water-side.
b. pl. (rare.)
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 668 When the heat of Summer is about the rising of the Dog-star, we must keepe them [sc. swine] altogether by water sides.
c. attrib.
1663in Geogr. Jrnl. (1900) XV. 634 Having made fast the blubber to the shore, we have a Waterside-man who stands in a pair of boots, to the middle leg in water, and flaweth such flesh as is not clean cut from the blubber. 1766W. Stork Acc. E.-Florida 56 The variety of swamps, rivulets, and water-side lands. 1831J. March (title) The Jolly Angler; or Waterside Companion. 1838Dickens O. Twist l, Thronged by the roughest and poorest of waterside-people. 1853― Bleak Ho. i, The waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. 1883Longman's Mag. July 308 Waterside flies do not seem to care for yellow, and most waterside flowers are therefore pinkish, purplish or white.
2. The side towards the water.
1868Kinglake Crimea III. xii. 280 marg., Along its whole front on the water side the place [Sebastopol] was secure without needing troops to defend it. |