landwash

American  

[land-wosh, -wawsh] / ˈlændˌwɒʃ, -ˌwɔʃ /

noun

Newfoundland.

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

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Etymology

Origin of landwash

land + wash

Example Sentences

From the small opening he could see the tent, the tall palm trees that sheltered it from the fierce rays of the meridian sun and the tapering masts of the old schooner as she lay fast aground on the blistering strand, and the landwash lazily undulating against her stern.

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A fox following t' landwash from t' rattle must surely take t' path there, for t' cliff fair shoulders him off t' land, and t' ice isn't fast more'n a foot or so from t' bluff.

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As us ran in at last for t' stage, us could see that Mother had hoisted t' flag t' Company gived we t' year us bought furs for they, and that Grannie was out waiting for us on t' 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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The following morning they did better, reaching the landwash of a big inlet forty miles farther south by noon.

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