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 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

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

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

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