quaywards
quaywards adverb: quayward; towards a quay; in the direction of a quay.
Adverb
quaywards (not comparable)
- Quayward; towards a quay; in the direction of a quay.
- Then when the red sails round by Lido came
To rest, and vacant now the gondolier
Beneath the Lion and those masts aflame
Lounged, bickering o'er his boy's piazza-game,
One darker boat came quaywards, called his name,
And straight toward the sunset seemed to steer.1890, H. D. Rawnsley, “The Poet's Home-going”, in Poems, Ballads, and Bucolics, London: Macmillan and Co., page 2 - Even the most respectable, though least interesting, quarter of the town is varied by a picturesque thatched cottage, old-fashioned alleys leading quaywards, and crooked thoroughfares that are twisted into eccentric curves.1908, Wilkinson Sherren, “Havenpool”, in The Wessex of Romance, London: Francis Griffiths, page 153
- Then when the red sails round by Lido came
Origin of quaywards
From quay + -wards.
Questions about quaywards
- What does quaywards mean?
- Quaywards means quayward; towards a quay; in the direction of a quay.
- What part of speech is quaywards?
- Quaywards is an adverb.
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