Definitions for shoreward

shoreward shore·ward

Spelling: [shawr-werd, shohr-]
IPA: /ˈʃɔr wərd, ˈʃoʊr-/

Shoreward is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 420 anagrams from letters in shoreward (adehorrsw).

Definitions for shoreward

noun

  1. the direction toward the shore or away from the sea.

adverb

  1. Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.

adjective

  1. facing, moving, or tending toward the shore or land:
  2. coming from the shore, as a wind.

Origin of shoreward

First recorded in 1575-85; shore1 + -ward

Examples for shoreward

It's blood-soaked in the middle, and there are blood-stains all along the shoreward half.

He could see that the gun had been fired from the vessel's shoreward battery.

Why, there's not a woman From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis.

He parted the shoreward bushes and revealed to me three men lying there.

About noon I sighted a big splash a mile off shoreward, and we headed that way.

I tried for a solid hour, and not one wave could I persuade to boost me shoreward.

Busy with the camels, Ali had time for only the briefest of shoreward glances.

Now I called to Thormod, and his voice answered me from shoreward.

A dozen came on the after deck with bows, and lined the shoreward gunwale.

Its only entrance is at the back, and on the shoreward side.

Word Value for shoreward
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Words with friends

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