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• a  (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land

• Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait.
• Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on .
• Two fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward.

• inshore
• onshore
• seaward

• offshore