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 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

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

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 of the night before had smashed the ponderous covering of ice right to the landwash.

From Adrift on an Ice-Pan 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