landwash

[ land-wosh, -wawsh ]

noun

, Newfoundland.

1. the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of landwash¹

land + wash

Example Sentences

From the small opening he could see the tent, the tall palm trees that sheltered it from the fierce rays of the meridian sun and the tapering masts of the old schooner as she lay fast aground on the blistering strand, and the landwash lazily undulating against her stern.

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The following morning they did better, reaching the landwash of a big inlet forty miles farther south by noon.

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But Uncle Rube thought only of one thing that morning—of foiling his arch enemy on the Red Island Shoals; and though nearly fourscore years had passed over him, he felt like a lad of twenty as he strode rapidly along towards the landwash.

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A fox following t' landwash from t' rattle must surely take t' path there, for t' cliff fair shoulders him off t' land, and t' ice isn't fast more'n a foot or so from t' bluff.

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The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summer fishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on the landwash.

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