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Definition of Coastward
1. Adverb. In the direction of the coast.
Definition of Coastward
1. Adjective. near the coast ¹
2. Adverb. towards the coast ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coastward
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coastward
Literary usage of Coastward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"AB a whole, these Cretaceous and Tertiary rock-sheets of the Texas Coastal Plain
may be collectively discussed as the systems of the coastward incline, ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"... most usually formed successively coastward. An example is found in the North
American Cordilleras, the three parallel ranges of which were successively ..."
3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1892)
"The coastward extension of these streams following the receding shore lines is
also shown in the medial portions of their courses. ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Bogs coastward, Mass, to Ga. St. 2 to 3f high. Leaf 15 to 30', ... Wet places, Can.
and US, chiefly coastward. Sts. G to 9' high, wiry, turfy. Stam. 6. ..."
5. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1917)
"I had come to regard it as a series of beds rising from the landward toward the
coastward margin, the several members dipping coastward and running under ..."
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