Definition of "woodside"

The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.

1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant

I wandered down the woodside way, / Where branching doors ope with the breeze, / And saw a little child at play / Among the strong and lovely trees.

1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets

In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides...

2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk