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inshore en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
    • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  2. Of a wind, blowing from the sea to the land.

Translations (15)

bg крайбрежен (close to shore) · sv kustnära (close to shore) · is sem er við land (close to shore) · fi rannan läheinen (close to shore) · is sem er nærri landi (close to shore) · fi meri- (see: merituuli) (of wind blowing from the sea to the land) · fi merellinen (of wind blowing from the sea to the land) · is álands- (of wind blowing from the sea to the land) · pl przybrzeżny (of wind blowing from the sea to the land) · fi rannikko- (close to shore) · is grunnsævis- (close to shore) · sv kust- (close to shore) · pl przybrzeżny (close to shore) · fi ranta- (close to shore) · es acostado (close to shore)

inshore en · ADV

Meanings

  1. Near the shore.
    • The sunset's roses faint and fain decline. Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale, Like an enormous coat of magic mail — Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline. 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:
  2. Towards the shore.
    • It is now believed that many species of sharks come inshore at night to feed and, therefore, that attacks made during the day are not related to the feeding process. 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 169:

Relateds

ensure · insure · deep-sea · offshore

Translations (14)

is að landi (towards the shore) · pl przy brzegu (near the shore) · tr kıyıya doğru (towards the shore) · is við land (near the shore) · is nærri landi (near the shore) · sv vid land (near the shore) · is uppi í landsteinum (near the shore) · tr kıyıya yakın (near the shore) · fi rantaan päin (towards the shore) · sv vid kusten (near the shore) · sv nära land (near the shore) · sv mot land (towards the shore) · pl w stronę brzegu (towards the shore) · fi rannan lähellä (near the shore)