shoreward

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English

Etymology

From shore +‎ -ward.

Adjective

shoreward (not comparable)

  1. In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
    • 1903 July, Jack London, “For the Love of a Man”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 175–176:
      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.
    • 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 148:
      The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments.
  2. Facing the shore.
    • 1883 June 30 – October 20, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, , published 1888, →OCLC:
      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 […]
    • 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 49, photo caption:
      Felixstowe's pier was cut short during the Second World War as an anti-invasion measure. Although its pierhead was subsequently demolished in the 1950s, a new £3 million shoreward building opened in August 2017.

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Adverb

shoreward (not comparable)

  1. Toward the shore.

Noun

shoreward (uncountable)

  1. The side facing the shore.
    • 1582, chapter 2, in Nicholas Lichefield, transl., 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:
      […] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]
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