shorewards

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative form of shoreward.

adv

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)Alternative form of shoreward.

   “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.”

   “The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, "new men" the narrative calls them.”