† 1. The shore. Obs.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, cxxiii. 443. He caste his ancre nere to the land syde. Ibid., clxi. 623. And then the waues brought me to the lond syde.
2. The side towards the land or on which there is land (not water).
1840. Thirlwall, Greece, VII. 343. To assault the city on the land-side.
1852. C. W. H[oskyns], Talpa, 181. Playing upon the edge, or land-side of the trench as it advances.
1875. W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 51. On the accessible land-side a double line of protection was thus formed.
3. The flat side of a plow that is turned towards the unplowed land.
1765. A. Dickson, Treat. Agric. (ed. 2), 239. The plough being confined on the land-side, and at liberty on the fur-side, which naturally gives it less land.
1875. in Knight, Dict. Mech.
