shoreward
Adjective
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Adjective
shoreward (not comparable)
- In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
- 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 6,
- When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.
- 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 6,
- Facing the shore.
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Chapter 5,
- If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, Chapter 5,
shoreward (not comparable)
- Toward the shore.
- 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters,
- “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
- “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
- 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters,
shoreward (uncountable)
- The side facing the shore.
- 1582, Nicholas Lichefield (translator), The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East, Chapter 2,
- […] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]
- 1582, Nicholas Lichefield (translator), The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias […] set foorth in the Portingale language by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda, London: Thomas East, Chapter 2,
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