lakeward

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English

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Etymology

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From lake +‎ -ward.

Adjective

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lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
    • 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time[1], Privately printed, page 11:
      The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.
    • 1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales:
      McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.

Adverb

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lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a lake.

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