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

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir