landwash
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of landwash
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The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summer fishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on the landwash.
From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The sea, rolling in during the previous night, had smashed the ponderous layer of surface ice right up to the landwash.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Miles of ice lay between them and me, the heavy sea was hurling great blocks on the landwash, and night was already falling, the wind blowing hard on shore.
From Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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.
From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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