coastward

[kohst-werd]

coast·ward

[kohst-werd]
adverb
1.
Also, coast·wards. toward the coast: We left the sinking ship in lifeboats and rowed coastward.
adjective
2.
directed toward the coast: a coastward migration.

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Coastward is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1850–55; coast + -ward
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coastward

adverb
in the direction of the coast 
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