"sandward" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From sand + -ward. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sand|ward}} sand + -ward Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sandward (not comparable)
  1. Facing or moving toward the sand. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-sandward-en-adj-ayOZvhpY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ward, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ward: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 83 17

Adverb [English]

Etymology: From sand + -ward. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sand|ward}} sand + -ward Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} sandward (not comparable)
  1. Toward or onto the sand. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-sandward-en-adv-htWKgTZu
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          "ref": "1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, page 66:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1835, George Darley, Nepenthe: A Poem in Two Cantos, London: Elkin Mathews, published 1897, page 44:",
          "text": "Now while this keen air renews,\nOn my strength its aim pursues,\nFrom that old sand-swallowed Isle\nMeroe, doubled by the Nile,\nBalking before whose watery bar\nVainly Simoom his dragon cheers,\nThat sandward home from Senaar\nBack on his stormy rider rears;",
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          "ref": "1951, Joseph Auslander, Audrey Wurdemann, chapter 10, in The Islanders, New York: Longmans, Green & Co, page 75:",
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          "ref": "1956 May, Rufus King, “Let Her Kill Herself”, in The Saint Detective Magazine:",
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