Crossword clues for seaward
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seaward \Sea"ward\, a.
Directed or situated toward the sea.
--Donne.
Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges
like a frosted fleece.
--G. W. Cable.
Seaward \Sea"ward\, adv.
Toward the sea.
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
a. Being in or facing the direction towards sea, as opposed to the direction to the land. adv. In the direction of the sea, toward the sea.
WordNet
adj. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "seaward winds" [syn: inshore, onshore] [ant: offshore]
directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast; "from the hill he took a seaward course"; "on the seaward side of the road"
adv. in the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward" [syn: seawards, asea, toward the sea]
Usage examples of "seaward".
The sun has burned away the mist, disclosing an almost solid mass of transports to seaward, beaches swarming with amphtracs and men, troops moving through cornfields toward the tableland, landing craft forming waves, earlier waves retracting.
The wind was moaning in the aerials and whirling the sand outside pretty briskly when they finally heard a long blat from seaward, and Mr.
Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed.
When we caught the wind we were soon on our seaward course, and only stopped to underrun a trawl, for the floats of which Mrs.
Zircon and Scotty had moved another mile seaward as soon as the vinta was launched.
On board the deck of a junk passing close to seaward of the Andaman a blue flare started up.
As the most accessible of the coastal Asti villages, it was no stranger to attacks and raids from both the landward and the seaward sides, but this time the enemy drove powerful magics before them, raised by powerful Gods.
Markwart kept most of the monks in position on the seaward side of the structure, though he had to place more than a score of brothers on the opposite wall, watching the many approaches for the expected land attack.
The coastal hills piled above him, their heights and seaward reaches still skirted in chalklike dust.
First he had to find it, then work round the seaward end, but at the same time he dare not risk missing the entrance to the river, the Rio Guanche, because they would then blunder into a shallow bay and two islands which were only a mile or so beyond and came immediately before Punta Cocal, the western entrance to Portobelo.
Nevertheless, Baranof effected anchorage at Koshigin Bay, sent the small boats ashore for water, watched his chance of a seaward breeze, and ran out to sea again in one desperate effort to reach Kadiak, the headquarters of the fur traders, before winter.
Off to the seaward side stood the Cannobaen light, a hundred-foot tower, wound with a staircase, where on clear nights the lightkeeper and his sons kept an enormous fire burning under a stone canopy or rang the bronze bell when it was foggy.
She looked north again, as far as she could see, to where distant mountain peaks rosea few to seaward, just north of Waterdeep, but most over to the north and east, in the northern backlands.
From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came, and the three tall steeples loomed stark and unpainted against the seaward horizon.
The seaward face of the Cape was rocky and waterworn along the shoreline.