Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earthward \Earth"ward\, Earthwards \Earth"wards\, adv. Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
Wiktionary
a. Towards the earth; earthward.
Usage examples of "earthwards".
The while he recognised the fact that at any moment lightning might do its deadly work, and that the airship would then crash earthwards, a mass of fiercely-burning wreckage.
The instant the missile left the mouth of the dropping apparatus it would have a tendency to travel in a horizontal direction at the same speed, as well as being taken earthwards by gravity.
Fully fifty feet he shot up, then, as he was on the point of returning earthwards, a gentle thrust with the pole gave him a fresh impetus.
I saw the laburnum drooping, as though thick clusters of these very stars had drifted earthwards among the branches.
But we were now slowly dropping Earthwards: in thirty minutes we would make our first contact with the atmosphere.
For as the capsules fall earthwards again, their motors will act as magnetic brakes, generating electricity.
Here, equidistant from the four tapes down which the Tower was being guided earthwards, was a small geodesic hut, looking even more temporary than the surface on which it had been erected.
He was looking directly up at the base of the Tower, crawling earthwards along its guiding tapes at a couple of kilometres a day.
Behind the shrinking wormhole interstices, the black eggs thundered earthwards with total impunity.
It spewed a tail of sparks, fire and smoke as it flew, then, as the powder charge began to be exhausted, the rocket fell earthwards.