shorewards

Adjective

shoreward (not comparable)

1. In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
   • 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.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

   Synonyms:

   beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards

   Antonyms:

   seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards, lakeward, lakewards

2. Facing the shore.
   • 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 […]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

   Synonyms:

   beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards

   Antonyms:

   seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards, lakeward, lakewards

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