sandward adjective 1adverb 1 adjective1 •Facing or moving toward the sand.The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach. They dropped on the sandward side of the logs. — 1950 adverb1 •Toward or onto the sand.The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair. — 1951