Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Toward, to, or on the shore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the shore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the shore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the direction of the
shoreline , relatively speaking. - adjective which faces the
shore - adverb toward the
shore
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
Etymologies
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Examples
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Frona saw them consult together for a minute, with much pointing and gesticulating on the part of the baron, and then St. Vincent detach himself and turn shoreward.
CHAPTER 23 2010
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When you see the wave coming that you want to ride in, you turn tail to it and paddle shoreward with all your strength, using what is called the windmill stroke.
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It was not until they were putting on their shoes that they sighted the yellow head bearing shoreward.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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One seemed to see as well as feel this heat, and Griffiths sought vain relief by gazing shoreward.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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I was alone in the water when a giant black manta ray came billowing along, headed shoreward.
Strange Paradise 2009
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Not long afterward we answered a shoreward hail, and two
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They cut trails, spreading apart as the wave carried them shoreward.
Bad Dad Alex Austin 2011
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Paddling, wheezing, resting, oblivious of the shadow-world of the white men, knowing only the reality of Tulagi Mountain cutting its crest-line blackly across the dim radiance of the star-sprinkled sky, the reality of the sea and of the canoe he so feebly urged across it, and the reality of his fading strength and of the death into which he would surely end, the ancient black man slowly made his shoreward way.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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Board and rider must be moving shoreward at a good rate before the wave overtakes them.
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