shoresiden.adj.
a. The edge of the shore; the part either of the land or sea adjacent to the shore.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line
seasidec1275
the sea's sidea1400
seasides1532
shoreside1571
sea-linea1687
seaboard1788
waterline1789
shoreline1811
sea-edge1820
coast-line1861
ocean line1870
ria coast1899
rias coast1899
1571 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1580, 11/1 Apud lie Schoir~syid de Almond.
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. D2 Fishes..swimming neere the shore side.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. M1 It is a view of delight..to stand or walke vppon the shoare side, and to see a Shippe tossed with tempest vpon the sea. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. vii[i]. 155 And if you would have this ledger bait to keep at a fixt place, undisturbed by wind or other accidents, which may drive it to the shoare side [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1667 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 270 Shee..left her 4 small Chilldren weeping on the shoare side.
1869 T. T. Lynch Church & State 19 When a larger company was gathered by the hillside, or the shoreside, there was a Church.
1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean I. vi. 112 Every one walked down to the shore-side to witness the freighting and launching of the vessel.
b. attributive passing into adj.
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1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiii. 108 The bow [of the boat] had struck among the shore-side trees.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Sept. 3/1 Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen, proclaimed his union's aim of a ‘march inland’—to organize all shoreside transportation and commodity handling under the stevedores.
1966 Economist 25 June 1439/3 Norway makes sure of a flow of young men into the merchant service. Bachelors pay half the income tax of workers ashore; married men pay a little more, though still less than the shoreside worker.
1979 D. Lowden Boudapesti 3 xxx. 160 Buildings going up... Shoreside villages, without a fishing boat in sight.
Derivatives
shoreside adv. to the shore, to land (rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective]
litorean1656
littoral1656
shory1684
tide-water1832
coastal1883
shoreside1948
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adverb] > towards
to the strandwardc1460
to (the) shoreward1582
home1668
shorewarda1691
shorewards1837
coastward1853
coastwards1854
shoreward of1941
shoreside1948
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 168 Are you coming shore-side this afternoon?
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 10/2 A desolate peninsula in Venezuela, expected to become the Western Hemisphere's largest oil port, needed facilities for seamen going ‘shoreside’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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