landwash

[ land-wosh, -wawsh ]

noun

, Newfoundland.

1. the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of landwash¹

land + wash

Example Sentences

When at last snow enough fell for the sledges to haul the moss down to the landwash, it was dark all day around the North Cape.

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The sea, rolling in during the previous night, had smashed the ponderous layer of surface ice right up to the landwash.

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At the former place the sea ran high, and the breakers fell with great force close to the landwash and over the promenade.

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The sea of the night before had smashed the ponderous covering of ice right to the landwash.

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It was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.

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