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shipward

shipward adverb: toward a ship.

Adverb

shipward (not comparable)

  1. toward a ship

Origin of shipward

From ship + -ward.

Questions about shipward

What does shipward mean?
Shipward means toward a ship.
What part of speech is shipward?
Shipward is an adverb.

Words near shipward in the dictionary

  1. Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp
  2. Shipton-under-Wychwood
  3. Shiptons
  4. Shiptonthorpe
  5. shiptracks
  6. shipward
  7. shipwards
  8. shipway
  9. shipways
  10. shipwide
  11. shipwork

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