"shorewards" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "shore",
        "3": "wards"
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      "expansion": "shore + -wards",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From shore + -wards.",
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      "expansion": "shorewards (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet:",
          "text": "Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery:",
          "text": "The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, \"new men\" the narrative calls them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "towards the shore"
      ],
      "id": "en-shorewards-en-adv-R2add2od",
      "links": [
        [
          "shore",
          "shore"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shorewards"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "shore",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From shore + -wards.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz",
        "Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz/2 syllables"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet:",
          "text": "Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery:",
          "text": "The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, \"new men\" the narrative calls them.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "towards the shore"
      ],
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        [
          "shore",
          "shore"
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      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz"
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  "word": "shorewards"
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