Word Meanings - SHOREWARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward the shore.

Related words: (words related to SHOREWARD)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• TOWARD
  1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• SHORELING
  See SHORLING
• SHORE
  imp. of Shear. Chaucer.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• OFFSHORE
  From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• DOGSHORE
  One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
• ASHORE
  On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground ; -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.
• UNTOWARD
  Toward. Gower.
• INSHORE
  Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.