landwards

British  

/ ˈlændwədz /

adverb

1. towards land

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landwards

The Irish Sea, whipped by a bitter wind, crashes onto the shore, hurling spray landwards and soaking the ledge.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023

"Do you know whether they have gone seawards or landwards, noble lady?" inquired Drost Peter.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

And he stopped and looked landwards, where the indistinct grey blur was beginning to take the pattern of fields and cliffs and beach.

From By Berwen Banks by Raine, Allen

Then the light was raised and swept away landwards.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

From Kawhia I struck landwards towards the upper course of the Waipa, as far as the Mokan district.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von