shoreward
/shawr-werd, shohr-/US // ˈʃɔr wərd, ˈʃoʊr- //UK // (ˈʃɔːwəd) //
岸边,向岸,岸上,沿岸
Definitions
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
- : Also shorewards. toward the shore or land.
adj.形容词 adjective
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- : facing, moving, or tending toward the shore or land: a shoreward course.
- : coming from the shore, as a wind.
n.名词 noun
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- : the direction toward the shore or away from the sea.
Examples
Lance reduced the speed, and the Blue Streak began to move shoreward.
All at once it snapped; the tiller swung useless and the boat whirled around, heeling in the stiffening wind, and drove shoreward.
Beyond the cove, Halyard was bobbing up and down, afloat in his invalid's chair, trying to steer shoreward.
So off we go heeling well to the breeze as our funny, high-slung lateen sail drives us shoreward at a great rate.
At sound of the shot, the captain swung on his heel, gripped the rail and stared shoreward.
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