sandward

English

Etymology

sand +‎ -ward

Adjective

sandward (not comparable)

1. Facing or moving toward the sand.
   • 1950, David Divine, The King of Fassarai, New York: Macmillan, p. 66,^[1]

     The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach. They dropped on the sandward side of the logs.

Adverb

sandward (not comparable)

1. Toward or onto the sand.
   • 1835, George Darley, Nepenthe: A Poem in Two Cantos, London: Elkin Mathews, 1897, p. 44,^[2]

     Now while this keen air renews,

     On my strength its aim pursues,

     From that old sand-swallowed Isle

     Meroe, doubled by the Nile,

     Balking before whose watery bar

     Vainly Simoom his dragon cheers,

     That sandward home from Senaar

     Back on his stormy rider rears;

   • 1951, Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann, The Islanders, New York: Longmans, Green & Co., Chapter Ten, p. 75,^[3]

     The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair.

   • 1956, Rufus King, “Let Her Kill Herself,” The Saint Detective Magazine, May 1956,^[4]

     In his mind’s eye he projected a picture of the coming daybreak, of a lone figure in her swim suit of flamingo, bravely defenseless in all this emptiness, with eyes cast sandward in a search for shells.