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Offsides   Listen
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offsides, offside  adj.  (Sports) Illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck; in sports such as football or hockey; as, the touchdown was nullified because the left tackle was offside.





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"Offsides" Quotes from Famous Books



... relating to fireships (No. XV.): 'You are to hold his majesty's ship under your command in a constant readiness for action, and in case of coming to an engagement with the enemy, if they have the wind of us, to keep your barge manned and armed with hand and fire-chain grapnels on the offside from them, to be ready to assist as well any ship that may be attempted by the fireships of the enemy, as our own fireships when they shall be ordered upon service.' This article disappears from subsequent sets, ...
— Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. • Julian S. Corbett


Words linked to "Offsides" :   athletics, sport, onside, offside


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