Definition of "landwards" [landwards]

• Towards land. Opposite of seawards. (adverb)

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• "Then he gathered the cords together and haled away at it, but found it weighty; and however much he drew it landwards, he could not pull it up; so he carried the ends ashore and drove a stake into the ground and made the net fast to it."
• "“It is all over with us,” the captain cried in desperation; he had pointed his telescope landwards, and saw not a sign from the shore."
• "Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky isle, in sea-girt Delos — while on either hand a dark wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds — whence arising you rule over all mortal men?"