lakeward

English

Etymology

lake + -ward

Adjective

lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
    • 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, page 11:
      The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.
    • 1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales:
      McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.

Adverb

lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a lake.
    • 1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway:
      Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.
    • 2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph:
      The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.

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