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单词 to the offward
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to the offward
1. In a direction or position off or away from something; (Nautical) away from the shore. Also as n. in to the offward (Nautical): towards the open sea.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place
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frowardOE
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yondwardc1275
yonwarda1387
waywardsc1390
fromwarda1547
offward1582
fromwardsa1661
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the world > space > place > absence > [adverb] > away from some recognized place
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1582 R. Madox Register 20 July in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 152 Luk Ward..seeing us cast offward cam aboord.
1582 R. Madox Register 22 July in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 154 We cast to th [e] offward to west norwest.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 567 Then Ionas was so wise, to be as far of-ward as possibly he might.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 71 If her sterne lie towards the sea, we say her sterne lies to the off-ward, and her head to the shore-ward.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 254 Offward, from the shore.
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 23 He stole affward sly.
1827 G. Darley Sylvia v. ix. 204 The bee mourning tracks the flower That winds bear offward from its bower.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The ship heels offward.
a1892 Ld. Tennyson Devil & Lady (1930) iv. iii. 66 Is the coast clear? Has he heel'd offward?
1959 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 67 [Surrey] You struck out on what we called a veering, you ploughed the offward, you ploughed so much offward, you ploughed what we called a toward and then you'd come to the furrow at the finish.
1999 D. Leone Eat this, San Francisco 21 If you'll kindly excuse me wandering offward,..Delta's also featured..my favorite waiterguyperson.
2003 C. Proctor Beyond Sunrise xxvi. 299 The corvette..came to an abrupt halt, spars shivering as she heeled sharply offward.
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