coastward

coastward
/kohst"weuhrd/, adv.
1. Also, coastwards. toward the coast: We left the sinking ship in lifeboats and rowed coastward.
adj.
2. directed toward the coast: a coastward migration.
[1850-55; COAST + -WARD]

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