adv. and a. [see -WARD.] Toward, or in the direction of, the coast.
1819. Jackson’s Oxford Jrnl., 31 Dec., 1/1.
| Coastward, from liberated France, | |
| In joy of heart our troops advance. |
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlix. (1854), 460. As we looked coastward.
1882. Stevenson, New Arab. Nts., II. i. 8. As you advanced into the wood from coastward, elders were succeeded by other hardy shrubs.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, I. 218. The coast of Greece and the coastward islands.
