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 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

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

The following morning they did better, reaching the landwash of a big inlet forty miles farther south by noon.

From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers 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

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