landwash
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of landwash
Example Sentences
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From that point it was only four miles to the opposite shore, a saving of several miles if one could make it, instead of following the landwash round the bay.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
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 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 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
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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
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