onshoreadv.adj.

1567 I. Whitney Admon. by Auctor in Copy of Let. sig. A(8) But sith thy Fortune is so yll To end thy lyfe on shore.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. ii [We] returned on shore certaine vnfit eaters.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 63 One foote in sea, and one on shore . View more context for this quotation

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen v. 56 It was to Windsor, the same place where I had formerly escaped drowning; and now being on shore, I found there was three of the Passengers.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 26 Resolving to swim on shoar as soon as it was dark.

1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague III. clxvii. 185 We go on board at one; Madame Des Roches goes down with us as far as her estate, where her boat is to fetch her on shore.

1798 J. O'Keeffe Czar Peter i. iii, in Dramatic Wks. III. 134 Nor beats his heart amidst the general roar, But for the lovely maid he left on shore.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xi. 173 Part of the crew was sent on shore for exercise.

1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone I. i. vii. 104 A crew was brought together, and with immense difficulty they had got her a few yards from land, when she was flung on shore again and stranded.

1939 R. Denney Elegy on Pilot in Connecticut River 62 In fearful vacuums as lights on shore When ships steam out to mingle with the moon.

1993 D. Lamb Sense of Place 29 Lewis walked onshore, making notes on topography, flora and fauna.

1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 123 If the sea be really heavy, and the wind blowing a hard on-shore gale, it can only be by the utmost exertions..that any headway can be made.

1894 J. J. Astor Journey in other Worlds ii. xiii. 266 Though the wind was blowing an on-shore gale, there was but little combing.

1910 V. Cornish Waves of Sea vi. 179 When, at sea, the wind is obliquely on-shore there is not only a 'longshore current.., but waves also break obliquely.

1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze xiv. 342 The strong onshore wind had caused the tide to rise as much as half the hour ahead of almanac time.

1997 Boards Mar. 23/3 The light onshore breeze made negotiating the shorebreak a bit too difficult for our liking, so we got into bodyboarding.

1896 Science 31 May 570/1 The treatment of the on-shore tide as a wave accounts for the peculiar relations often observed between flood and ebb currents and high and low water.

1909 New Phytologist 8 46 The on-shore action of waves on a beach of gentle slope is of greater efficiency in working the sand landwards than on a steep slope.

1959 Listener 5 Mar. 432/3 Glances at the on-shore life.

1991 Sanity Jan. 11/2 The US deployed huge onshore and offshore forces.

2001 Middle East Times (Egypt ed.) 7 Apr. 10/3 Bahrain..only produces around 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) from its onshore fields.