queenward

English

Etymology

From queen +‎ -ward.

Adverb

queenward (not comparable)

1. Towards a queen.
   • 1527?, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, published 1965, page 1443:

     The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”

   • 1879 June 28, “Beaconsfield and Peel”, in The Evening Star‎^[1], volume 53, number 8,186, Washington, D.C.:

     It is a letter in which, courtward and Queenward, Sir Robert uses very strong language, calling the statement of Vanity Fair “a very impudent expression of the latest development of the ridiculous imperialism of the present day;” “a clear breach of privilege, recalling the most stupid exhibitions of royal misconduct.”

   • 1963, Norah Lofts, Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228:

     What had been the comrades’ talk? The Queen. Whither had all their hopes winged? Queenward.

   • 1987, Appalachian Heritage, page 17:

     At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surging queenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.

   • 2005 October 9, Amarande, “Oppsite-side castling”, in rec.games.chess.analysis (Usenet):

     In case A, O-O-O is pretty much ironclad safe for Black; the c-file is full open, but a single line does not a successful attack make (unless defensive forces are congested, but Black's strength points Queenward), and there is no way, if Black's a and b pawns are unmoved, for White to force open any additional lines (3v3 can open a file by force, but 2v2 cannot).

   • 2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, in Kramnik: Move by Move, Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess Challenge 2012, Four Knights Game):

     The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to roll queenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.

   • 2016, Ian Tregillis, Radio Free Tresmigistus (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, season one, episode 07)), Serial Box, →ISBN:

     He turned his attention back to the radio he'd confiscated from Tatiana Morozova’s flat. Right now it was plugged into the mains under his desk, its back cover laid carefully on the desk, a screwdriver and four screws sitting queenward of a forlorn king’s bishop.

   • 2017, Tom Kennedy, Sapphire the Dragon, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     Begin walking ant queenward people.