boatside means near or for boats.
Etymology
From boat + side.
adj
- Near or for boats.“There are low little bulging timber-houses to be soon seen; boatside dwelling-places for boatside men, wherein they can still exercise tarring and " shivering," and belaying, and some rat-catching, surely, and be quite at home.”
adv
- Beside a boat.“When he of the men hooked a cobia, the level of their voices picked up and soon—too soon—they had it boatside.”
noun
- The side of a boat.“At that same moment Gregson, excited too, flattened him against the boatside so that he could not move.”