SHOREWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shoreward mean? 

• SHOREWARD (adjective)
  The adjective SHOREWARD has 1 sense:

1. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land

  Familiarity information: SHOREWARD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOREWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land

Synonyms:

inshore; onshore; shoreward

Context example:

an onshore gale

 Context examples 

Then I skirted among the woods until I had regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it,—when a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)