shoreward

shoreward

English

Etymology

shore +‎ -ward

Adjective

shoreward (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. 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 […]

Synonyms

• landward

Antonyms

• lakeward, seaward

Adverb

shoreward (not comparable)

1. 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.”

Noun

shoreward (uncountable)

1. 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 […]