overside

1. 1.

   over the side of a boat

   “Willie eased himself overside into the sea”

Questions about overside

What does overside mean?

overside means "over the side of a boat".

How many syllables are in overside?

overside has 3 syllables and divides as o-ver-side under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is overside a common word?

overside is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.