broadside vs transverse

broadside

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

noun
  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

transverse

verb
  • To lie or run across; to cross. 

  • To alter or transform. 

  • To overturn. 

  • To traverse or thwart. 

adj
  • (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting. 

  • Made at right angles to the long axis of the body. 

  • Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas. 

noun
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart. 

  • The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse. 

How often have the words broadside and transverse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )