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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