What is "longshore"

Usage examples of "longshore".

A man could be swept out to sea from one section of the shore, while a hundred yards away children cavorted in the diminishing waves without noticing the slightest tug from the current The unrelenting force of a rip current occurs when the longshore flow returns to the sea through narrow, stormgrooved valleys in offshore sandbars.

British fair-play on British soil, and none of your cursed longshore tricks.

I am, my hanger shall scrape acquaintance with the longshore tuck which hangs at his girdle.

I know of scarcely any book that shows a really sympathetic and living understanding of the navvy, the longshore sailor man, the rough chap of our own race.

The hold was now jammed to all surfaces with packed containers, and the outside of the ship was beginning to bristle with containers tied to longshore capsules, waiting to slide up the tracks onto the loop when the time came.

The other splashed home as well and then they were still, rocking slightly to the longshore swell.

CHAPTER XXVI HELP FOR HALL THE OLD TIDAL harbour of Sturton, used only by the smallest coasting craft and longshore fishing boats nowadays, had ramps of rock on either side the mouth.

Their actual number was not more than a dozen, of whom the leader was a Chinaman with the loose-looking shoulders and physical strength of a Shanghai longshore coolie.

Even with fumes of longshore arrack in their heads they knew enough to wait and see.

The longshore swamp smelled of rot, and the overcast rolled low and threatening over air that shimmered with heat and moisture, over oil-smooth sea the color of grey bread mold.

Anchored in the shallows a few hundred metres along the beach, a small, battered-looking trawler wagged back and forth in a longshore current.