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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ashore
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
washed ashore (=brought to the shore by waves)
▪ The body was washed ashore.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
▪ On the day, they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house.
▪ Electricity would be brought ashore by marine cables.
▪ The animal was seized after being brought ashore illegally from a foreign ship.
come
▪ In the spring the clan chief's steward came ashore to find the last surviving woman on the rocky shore.
▪ If there had been such action, critics say, crews might have kept slicks from coming ashore.
▪ When the time came, one or other of the sons would come ashore to run the shipping offices.
▪ The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.
▪ I could visualise the map, and the position of the village in relation to the coast where I had come ashore.
▪ I came ashore to see about gasoline.
▪ The civilians and dockworkers were staring at me, the Commandos coming ashore don't seem to notice my piping.
▪ As the others came ashore I took stock of my new dominion.
get
▪ If Alan heard, he remained silent, probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible.
▪ He wants to get ashore, and who can blame him?
▪ When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta.
▪ The doors to the deck were shut against the weather so she thought she could get ashore unseen.
▪ It was a great joy to get ashore after being cramped with our fellows, not all of them Air Force.
▪ This was just one of the many problems in getting ashore.
▪ Ted Parsons had got ashore, but when lying rock-still he felt a gun behind his ear and was captured.
go
▪ Before going ashore, secure hatches and lock all portholes and doors.
▪ Brognar Blackstrap, the band goes ashore to check out the island and see what riches they can cart off.
▪ They had just negotiated a lock and it had been her turn to go ashore.
▪ A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.
▪ He could go ashore to go to the lavatory, but had to return immediately to the raft.
▪ Directly you go ashore have a bath, send everything you've been wearing to the laundry, and wash your hair.
swim
▪ She will not face inland, and so the Whale will not swim ashore.
▪ Very few of our men swam ashore, most of those who were rescued from the water being saved by small boats.
▪ As it was dark by now, no bullets hit them, and they began to swim ashore.
wade
▪ Thousands of High Elves were cut down by crossbow fire as they waded ashore.
▪ We waded ashore coughing up salt water and drenched to the skin.
▪ They waded ashore just below their lonely hut.
▪ He anchored his boat in hip-deep water about 25 yards from the beach, and we waded ashore like General Douglas MacArthur.
▪ My companions hurriedly dropped me off at Chateaubelair, near Richmond, leaving me to wade ashore waist deep.
▪ After a moment, he waded ashore and sat down.
wash
▪ Battered by 50 knot winds and seven-metre seas, the Ambrosia was later washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.
▪ Meanwhile, residents have been reporting pieces of the wreckage washing ashore.
▪ Such was the rorqual whale, 64 feet long with a 12 foot tail, washed ashore in 1879.
▪ Hapless, hopelessly clumsy Gilligan is washed ashore along with the competent, self-assured skipper.
▪ All these bits and pieces washed ashore.
▪ State officials also reported a dead sea turtle had washed ashore.
▪ Rubbish is discarded; that from boats is washed ashore and there is greater disturbance of the animal life.
▪ Only two men washed ashore alive.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of the other passengers had gone ashore.
▪ People were returning to their cabins after a day ashore.
▪ Pieces of the boat washed ashore.
▪ Two bodies were washed ashore last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels, which were driven ashore by a storm, and then burnt by Wulfnoth.
▪ I've sent Sub-Lieutenant Cousteau ashore to pick them up.
▪ I came ashore to see about gasoline.
▪ Meanwhile, residents have been reporting pieces of the wreckage washing ashore.
▪ On the day, they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house.
▪ The disembarkation began immediately, and I took the opportunity of a run ashore with the others to survey our unique landfall.
▪ We waded ashore coughing up salt water and drenched to the skin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ashore

Ashore \A*shore"\, adv. [Pref. a- + shore.] On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

Here shall I die ashore.
--Shak.

I must fetch his necessaries ashore.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ashore

1580s, "toward the shore," from a- (1) + shore (n.). Meaning "on the shore" is from 1630s. Middle English had ashore (late 15c.), but it meant "on a slant," literally "propped up," from shore (v.).

Wiktionary
ashore

adv. 1 (context nautical English) On the land as opposed to onboard 2 (context nautical English) On, or towards the shore

WordNet
ashore

adv. towards the shore from the water; "we invited them ashore" [syn: on land, toward land, onto land]

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Wikipedia
Ashore (album)

Ashore is a folk album by June Tabor released in 2011 on Topic Records, catalogue number TSCD 577.

It is a collection of songs concerning humankind's relationship with the sea.

Usage examples of "ashore".

All the talk aboard was of booty and a run ashore with some money to spend.

The following morning the Gull and the Swallow sailed in company back into Table Bay, and as soon as they had anchored under the guns of the fort the Colonel and Cumbrae went ashore.

Hal anchored well clear of these burned and battered hulks, and Fasilides sent one of his servants ashore in the longboat.

He called after Dooly and retrieved the axolotls, and then with a last farewell, stepped ashore and disappeared around the ruined boathouse.

Some time during the cruise their bread supply failed, and Ragnar steered his vessel into the port of Spangarhede, where he bade his men carry their flour ashore and ask the people in a hut which he descried there to help them knead and bake their bread.

All these troops and the bulk of their materiel depended, to get ashore safely, on beaching or small landing craft.

Heavy surf pounded the beaches, small craft took shelter behind the block-ships, all work stopped, ships anchored off shore dragged anchors and fouled one another, beaching craft were driven ashore, Mulberry A began to break up, and the crash of small craft, dukws, vehicles and derelict units grinding together was heard above the din of war.

One by one the SAS men leapt ashore, with their big bergans now strapped onto their backs and holding their automatic rifles.

Here they went ashore to a wretched bivouac, to lie about the camp fires, with their belts drawn tight, chewing grass or aromatic leaves to allay their hunger.

In spite of the number and vigilance of the blockading fleet, several hundred blockade-runners had succeeded in making their way into Cape Fear River, though several hundred also had been captured, not to mention a very considerable number that had been run ashore or burned when escape became hopeless.

After Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.

Macore and Bly went ashore, the others grew restless, with the bright lights and noise of a massive and living cosmopolitan city crisscrossed with a network of canals and levees.

On Friday, May 27th, 1680, while ashore with a watering party in the Gulf of Nicoya, the interpreter, having had, no doubt, his fill of buccaneering, ran away.

She had burdened Jenny, sitting on her other side, with the huge valise she required for one night ashore.

He had noticed the horns of a caama projecting above the brushwood, and went ashore alone with the intention of securing it.