Definition of "nearside" []

• The left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle (noun)
• The face of the Moon nearest the Earth (noun)

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• "A person who rides the (leading) nearside (left-hand side) horse drawing a coach or carriage, esp. when one pair only is used and there is no coachman."
• "The result suggests that far-side crust was cooler and harder than that of the nearside."
• "I prefer the north as the mobility to the entire lunar nearside and farside is much greater than in the south."