inshore

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Adjective

inshore

1. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
2. (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.

Translations

• Spanish: acostado

Adverb

inshore

1. Near the shore.
   • 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:

     The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.

     Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,

     Like an enormous coat of magic mail —

     Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.

2. Towards the shore.

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