Shorewards

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    towards the shore not-comparable

    "Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village."

Example

More examples

"Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village."

Etymology

From shore + -wards.

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