Meaning

Toward a boat..

Example Sentences

Returning boatward by a new route, we passed through some queer little courts, where I was welcomed by various very clean, nice-looking, neatly dressed women, with glossy hair, and wearing pretty silver ornaments in the shape of butterflies or dragon-flies marked with lucky symbols, the colour being given by bright blue and green enamel.

I see his long, slender, golden shape plowing boatward near the surface.

By the time we had examined it we were quite ready to turn boatward.

The horse-guards drive their shaggy rabble in From nightlong grazing. Voyageurs, with packs Of folded tents and camp gear on their backs, Slouch boatward through the reek. But when prevails The smell of frying pans and coffee pails,

Frank Thomas, in fact, tried to jerk so many balls boatward down the 279-foot left-field line that Stengel is said to have chastised him at one point, saying, "If you want to be a sailor, join the navy!"

And then you see a stallion and his harem, eight small horses gazing curiouly boatward, tails switching, an egret plucking bugs off the back of one.

All along the waterfront are a number of night clubs and cabarets, traditional last syops for travelers boatward bound.

His tail went down, a front paw slipped, and without thinking, without breathing, I released my single-handed hold on the rail and pushed him boatward.

Word Forms

• more boatward
• most boatward

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