Ashore Definition

ə-shôr
adverb
To or onto the shore.
Driven ashore by the wind.
American Heritage
To the shore.
Rowing the boat ashore.
Webster's New World
On land.
An old sailor in sad retirement ashore.
Webster's New World

(nautical) On the land as opposed to onboard.

Wiktionary

(nautical) On, or towards the shore.

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Origin of Ashore

  • a- +‎ shore

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Ashore Sentence Examples

  • We shall put you ashore on the first island that we see.

  • We will also collect terrestrial invertebrates by hand ashore.

  • Attracted by his gifts, pirates from the North Sea kidnap the boy, but terrified by the storms which subsequently beset them, put him ashore on the coast of Cornwall, whence he finds his way to the court of his uncle King Mark.

  • Campo, brother-in-law of the adelantado, who first stepped ashore.

  • In 1844 the troop-ships "Briton" and "Runnymede" were driven ashore here, almost close together.

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