Die woordeboekbetekenis van "kuswaarts" is in die rigting van die kus, of na die land wat aan 'n watermassa grens. Dit is 'n bywoord wat gebruik word om beweging of rigting na die kus of kuslyn te beskryf.
She turned back to help nudge the proa shoreward, keeping her eye on the boy, who was contentedly playing tag with the surf.
But the wave he had chosen must have been a particularly fat one because he seemed to ride it for a long time, and it was a long time before it broke on his stern, well reefward of the ones preceding it and well shoreward of the one following.
Several men and women poured off the strand, where they had been waiting, and trod down the beach to greet the two famous elders and help them lug their catch shoreward.
Helkena heard him initiating the chant, followed by a chorus response from the men hauling, who lifted the craft as they chanted and nudged it shoreward one step at a time.
In the meantime, Libwiro had gone to the cookhouse and was in the mess of eating a lobster when they appeared from the house, on their way shoreward.
The craft could then float shoreward, through a sort of cleared channel on the reef, the rest of the way toward shore.
