Crossword clues for alongshore
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alongshore \A*long"shore`\, adv. Along the shore or coast.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. At or along a shore or coast. (from 18th c.) adv. At or along a shore or coast. (from 17th c.)
Usage examples of "alongshore".
Only the rustle of creatures alongshore and the noise of crickets or an occasional frog could be heard.
By the time she stepped onto dirt he was sliding swiftly alongshore, heading for a small knot of hooded and robed Funor about halfway back to the rivermouth.
He passed two other barges tied alongshore, then the first watchtower showed dark against the sky.
But now, with the islands rotating - no matter how slowly - even that could not be relied upon, and the alongshore races were alarmingly unpredictable.
Nicias with his sixty ships coasted alongshore and ravaged the Locrian seaboard, and so returned home.
They had been carried to Libya by a storm, and having obtained two galleys and pilots from the Cyrenians, on their voyage alongshore had taken sides with the Euesperitae and had defeated the Libyans who were besieging them, and from thence coasting on to Neapolis, a Carthaginian mart, and the nearest point to Sicily, from which it is only two days' and a night's voyage, there crossed over and came to Selinus.