weather-broad-side

Updated: June 27, 2025

Begin with your bow pieces, proceed with your broadside, and let her fall off with the wind to give him also your full chase, your weather-broad-side, and bring her round so that the stern may also discharge, and your tacks close aboard again! ... 'The wind veers, the sea goes too high to board her, and we are shot through and through, and between wind and water. 'Try the pump! Bear up the helm!

William Charles Henry Wood - Elizabethan Sea Dogs