"to-ward" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine",
          "text": "Tom and Joe, who had come upon the group of other pupils after the impromptu snowball throwing contest had started, advanced further to-ward their school companions. Peaches and Teeter were still engaged in their friendly struggle, until Peaches tripped over a stone, concealed under a blanket of snow, and both went down in a struggling heap.",
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