English

Adjective

inshore ‎(comparative more inshore, superlative most inshore)

1. 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, in 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.

2. (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.

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Adverb

inshore ‎(comparative more inshore, superlative most inshore)

1. Near the shore
2. Towards the shore

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See also

• deep-sea
• offshore
• insure
• ensure