Meaning of Landward | Babel Free

Definitions

The side facing land.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Generall then being at supper, and hearing that call, and looking out to landward, sawe those savage people comming after [Fernan Veloso], and presently imagined they meant him harme, and therefore forthwith he commaunded the whole to put themselves in battaile araye, and he himselfe with certaine others, went to landward without anye weapons, deeming verely that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer annye force […]”

“The Town is large, containing about five hundred well-built Houses, built with Dutch-Brick, and the meanest not valued under one hundred Pounds; to the landward it is encompassed with a Wall of a good thickness, and fortified at the entrance of the River, so as to command any Ship which passeth that way, by a Fort, called James-Fort […]”

“He sailed along, still northward, day after day; several important people joined him; but the news from landward grew daily more ominous […]”

“Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landward by a bulk of shattered mountains.”

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