Synonyms:
inshore, onshore, seaward, shoreward
Meaning: (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds"
Usage examples
But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.
The last we saw of him or his dead body it was drifting shoreward on that hatch.
They waded breast-deep in the water, emerging, coming shoreward, a woman, with her hair coiled about her head, and in pursuit of her a man, graceful figures of black and silver, with a bright green surge flowing off from them, a pattering of flashing wavelets about them.