What is "groundward"

Usage examples of "groundward".

The aircar was caught by a backdraft and thrown into a dive, heeling over to head groundward at tremendous speed.

But a glance backward showed both pursuing repellers rocketing groundward as fast as their pilots could stand.

She could actually see them—yellow, burstingly plump—hanging so heavy on willowy branches that they pulled the boughs groundward.

She could actually see them--yellow, burstingly plump--hanging so heavy on willowy branches that they pulled the boughs groundward.

He would take a hop at one of the lower branches, flail about with his legs, then drop groundward and crouch for a moment peering around the trunk toward the river.

At his leader's look, the son of the Undersecretary of State dropped his eyes groundwards in immediate humility.

The trick of swimming groundwards we brought off with some few bruises, discovering that we must will the specific rate of descent as well as the mere direction.

The aircraft spun heavily into the frictionless surface and the passenger was thrown free before its pilot and the crippled glider began to slip groundwards at an accelerating rate.

She saw that silver smudging of a sky, a blurring that crept inexorably groundward.