landward
land werd
- r toward land
landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands
- Along the arc of defenses which guarded the landward side a rain of bombs gouged out pillboxes and machine guns.
- By late last week, however, oil-industry experts concluded that although Iraqi jets had managed to penetrate the heavily defended southeastern, landward side of the complex known .
- At others, naval landing craft bore the troops landward in the face of continuous fire.