sandward meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

sandward

adj

Etymology From sand + -ward.

Facing or moving toward the sand.

The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach. They dropped on the sandward side of the logs.1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, page 66:

adv

Etymology From sand + -ward.

Toward or onto the sand.

Now while this keen air renews, On my strength its aim pursues, From that old sand-swallowed Isle Meroe, doubled by the Nile, Balking before whose watery bar Vainly Simoom his dragon cheers, That sandward home from Senaar Back on his stormy rider rears;1835, George Darley, Nepenthe: A Poem in Two Cantos, London: Elkin Mathews, published 1897, page 44:
The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair.1951, Joseph Auslander, Audrey Wurdemann, chapter 10, in The Islanders, New York: Longmans, Green & Co, page 75:

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In his mind’s eye he projected a picture of the coming daybreak, of a lone figure in her swim suit of flamingo, bravely defenseless in all this emptiness, with eyes cast sandward in a search for shells.1956 May, Rufus King, “Let Her Kill Herself”, in The Saint Detective Magazine: