landwash
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of landwash
Example Sentences
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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
The following morning they did better, reaching the landwash of a big inlet forty miles farther south by noon.
From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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 spectacle is all too suggestive for one who has always regarded the most attractive aspect of the sea to be viewed from the landwash.
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The ice in the middle, however, which had looked so sure from the landwash, proved to be "black"—that is, very, very thin, though being salt-water ice, it was elastic.
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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