"sandward" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "sand + -ward",
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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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        "Facing or moving toward the sand."
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  "etymology_text": "sand + -ward",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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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",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956 May, Rufus King, “Let Her Kill Herself”, in The Saint Detective Magazine",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Toward or onto the sand."
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  "word": "sandward"
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          "ref": "1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, page 66",
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        "Facing or moving toward the sand."
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  "word": "sandward"
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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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          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "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.",
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