Meanings
- not comparableToward the sea.
He sent a keen, gray, seawardly glance at Miss Vanderholt, and fastened his gaze with an expression of attention upon her father.
2015, William Clark Russell, Last Entry2 more examples
Looking seawardly, we distinguish the bursting crests of long ridges of waves, and far off, where the cloud on the horizon has lifted apparently an inch or two, you can observe the irregular, peaked, and jagged outline of the agitated sea.
1845, “The price of a garter and the price of a life”, in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 3, page 434The environments in question include inland basins, seawardly dipping and off-shore sediments, low-permeability basement under a sedimentary cover, hard rocks in low-relief terrane and small islands.
2012, H.-G. Attendorn, Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, page 562
Origin
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