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Definition of Inshore

1. Adjective. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land. "Sheltered from seaward winds"

2. Adverb. Toward the shore. "We swam two miles inshore"

3. Adjective. Close to a shore. "Inshore fisheries"

Definition of Inshore

1. a. Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.

Definition of Inshore

1. Adjective. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land ¹

3. Adverb. Near the shore ¹

4. Adverb. Towards the shore ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inshore

1. near the shore [adj]

Medical Definition of Inshore

1. Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inshore

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Literary usage of Inshore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"The American commissioners stated that, if the value of the inshore fisheries could be ascertained, the United States might prefer to purchase, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Their occurrence, however, is not confined to inshore waters, for at Smith Bank, off Caithness, they were in considerable numbers in April, ..."

3. A History of the New England Fisheries: With Maps by Raymond McFarland (1911)
"in the inshore fisheries is essentially the same that is employed in taking the fish in the ... Lines, trawls and bait are used inshore as well as offshore, ..."

4. History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United by John Bassett Moore (1898)
"The American Commissioners stated that if the value of the inshore fisheries could be ascertained, the United States might prefer to purchase, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"They do not spawn in inshore waters of the United States and their real spawning grounds are unknown. It is beautifully shaped for swimming, built with the ..."

6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... and the enemy entirely so, she surrendered. by the Hazard and several others of the inshore squadron, with the signal for their being the enemy. ..."

7. Award of the Fishery Commission: Documents and Proceedings of the Halifax by Maurice Delfosse, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Alexander Tilloch Galt, United States Dept. of State (1878)
"I. The entire freedom of Hie inshore fisheries. Newfoundland, from that part of its coast now thrown open to United States fishermen, yearly extracts, ..."

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