quayward
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "All down the quays vessels moored after their fashion—bows quayward, sterns outward; an arrangement giving an immense number of ships each its own small share of landing."
- "The surf was plunging and leaping over the great break-water before the harbour, and our small shore boat danced like a cork even inside, now cocking her stern, now her bows, as she crept quayward through the shipping."
- "[…] of the sea. As it rose and fell every pulse in the estuary carried them quayward, carried them seaward."
- "Now in the crowded noon, sustained a pediment by the shuffle and whisper of adulation that came up over as on the quayward side, he seemed to give the lie to these speculations."
- "The floor slopes from quayward side of the shed up to railway lines at the back of the shed, where it reaches full ordinary platform height."
- "Half a mile back up past the City Hall, via Chichester Street, are the Royal Courts of Justice, opened in 1933, and not far distant, at the quayward end of High Street, is the Albert clock tower, dating from 1870."