What does inshore mean in English? Meaning of inshore definition and abbreviation with examples.
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What is "inshore" in English? Definition and Explanations
Meaning of "inshore": (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
Adjective
Meaning: (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
Example: an inshore breeze
an onshore gale
sheltered from seaward winds
Synonyms: inshore
onshore
seaward
shoreward
Antonyms: offshore
seaward
Meaning of "inshore": toward the shore
Adverb
Meaning: toward the shore
Example: we swam two miles inshore
Synonyms: inshore
Meaning of "inshore": close to a shore
Adjective
Meaning: close to a shore
Example: inshore fisheries
Synonyms: inshore
Similar: coastal
Adjective: Close to (especially in sight of) a shore. 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth: The sunset's roses faint and fain decline. Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale, Like an enormous coat of magic mail — Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, Mr. Pratt's Patients: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth: The sunset's roses faint and fain decline. Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale, Like an enormous coat of magic mail — Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, Mr. Pratt's Patients: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.(of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
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