adv. phr. Naut. [f. ALONG prep. + SHORE.]
1. Along by the shore; on the water ‘in a course which is in sight of the shore and nearly parallel to it.’ Adm. Smyth.
1779. T. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 50. In steering along-shore, the island Selang, that makes the harbour, may be easily perceived.
1849. Grote, Greece (1862), V. II. lvii. 118. The Syracusans ., rowed close along-shore. Ibid. Seamanship was of no avail in this along-shore fighting.
2. Along and on the shore. (See the aphetic ’LONG-SHORE.)
