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shoreward

[shawr-werd, shohr-]

shore·ward

[shawr-werd, shohr-]
adverb
1.
Also, shore·wards. toward the shore or land.
adjective
2.
facing, moving, or tending toward the shore or land: a shoreward course.
3.
coming from the shore, as a wind.

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Shoreward is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
noun
4.
the direction toward the shore or away from the sea.

Origin:
1575–85; shore1 + -ward
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shoreward (ˈʃɔːwəd)
 
adj
1.  near or facing the shore
 
adv
2.  towards the shore

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