Shorewards

Origin

shore + -wards

Full definition of shorewards

Adverb

1. towards the shore
• 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter , Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village.
• 1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery Chapter , The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, "new men" the narrative calls them.