Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb To or onto the shore.
- adverb On land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On shore; on or to the land adjacent to water: as, bring the goods ashore; the ship was driven ashore.
- On land: opposed to aboard or afloat: as, the captain of the ship remained ashore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to
aboard orafloat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb nautical On the
land as opposed toonboard - adverb nautical On, or towards the
shore
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb towards the shore from the water
Etymologies
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Examples
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It began to happen when six men came ashore from the Search, with heavy outfits, as though they had come to stay, and quartered themselves in Neegah's igloo.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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Joan was standing up in the stern-sheets, reiterating her good-byes -- a slim figure of a woman in the tight-fitting jacket she had worn ashore from the wreck, the long-barrelled Colt's revolver hanging from the loose belt around her waist, her clear-cut face like a boy's under the Stetson hat that failed to conceal the heavy masses of hair beneath.
Chapter 16 2010
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf Wall Street Journal 2010
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf Wall Street Journal 2010
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When I sail, they sail; when I remain ashore, they remain ashore.
Chapter 19 2010
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And ... that's all; I put my eggs ashore from the boat at Dawson.
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start to BP Fund Puzzles Gulf Dionne Searcey 2010
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Daughtry even encouraged this exchange of facial amenities for the purpose of deterring him from ever hoping to win ashore to the village of his birth.
CHAPTER III 2010
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The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.
Bumpy Start To BP Fund Puzzles Gulf Wall Street Journal 2010
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