sandward
sandward adjective: facing or moving toward the sand.
Adjective
sandward (not comparable)
- Facing or moving toward the sand.
- The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach. They dropped on the sandward side of the logs.1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, page 66
Adverb
sandward (not comparable)
- Toward or onto the sand.
- Now while this keen air renews,
On my strength its aim pursues,
From that old sand-swallowed Isle
Meroe, doubled by the Nile,
Balking before whose watery bar
Vainly Simoom his dragon cheers,
That sandward home from Senaar
Back on his stormy rider rears;1835, George Darley, Nepenthe: A Poem in Two Cantos, London: Elkin Mathews, published 1897, page 44 - The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair.1951, Joseph Auslander, Audrey Wurdemann, chapter 10, in The Islanders, New York: Longmans, Green & Co, page 75
- Now while this keen air renews,
Origin of sandward
From sand + -ward.
Questions about sandward
- What does sandward mean?
- Sandward means facing or moving toward the sand.
- What part of speech is sandward?
- Sandward can be an adjective or an adverb.
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