inshore

English

Adjective

inshore

Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  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.
(of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.

Translations

close to shore

Finnish: rannikko- (fi), ranta- (fi); rannan läheinen
Icelandic: sem er nærri landi, sem er við land (is), grunnsævis- (is)

Spanish: acostado (es)
Swedish: kustnära, kust-

of wind blowing from the sea to the land

Finnish: merellinen (fi), meri- (fi) (see: merituuli)

Icelandic: álands-

Adverb

inshore

Near the shore.
- 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:
  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.
Towards the shore.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 169:
  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.

Translations

near the shore

Finnish: rannan lähellä
Icelandic: nærri landi, við land, uppi í landsteinum

Swedish: nära land, vid land, vid kusten
Turkish: kıyıya yakın

towards the shore

Finnish: rantaan päin
Icelandic: að landi

Swedish: mot land
Turkish: kıyıya doğru

See also

Anagrams

Horines, heroins, hierons

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