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in⋅shore

[in-shawr, -shohr]
–adjective
1. close or closer to the shore.
2. lying near the shore; operating or carried on close to the shore: inshore fishing.
–adverb
3. toward the shore: They went closer inshore.

Origin:
1695–1705; in- 1 + shore 1
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in·shore   (ĭn'shôr', -shōr')   
adv.   & adj.
  1. Close to a shore.

  2. Toward or coming toward a shore.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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