Definition of "ashore" []

• To or onto the shore: driven ashore by the wind. (adverb)
• On land: spent the day ashore. (adverb)

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• "The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill."
• "And ... that's all; I put my eggs ashore from the boat at Dawson."
• "Daughtry even encouraged this exchange of facial amenities for the purpose of deterring him from ever hoping to win ashore to the village of his birth."