landwash
the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
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How to use landwash in a sentence
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.
A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason GrenfellThe sea, rolling in during the previous night, had smashed the ponderous layer of surface ice right up to the landwash.
A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason GrenfellAt the former place the sea ran high, and the breakers fell with great force close to the landwash and over the promenade.
The Blizzard in the West | UnknownThe sea of the night before had smashed the ponderous covering of ice right to the landwash.
Adrift on an Ice-Pan | Wilfred T. GrenfellIt was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.
Labrador Days | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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