What's the difference between landward and landwards?
Landward
Definition:
(adv. & a.) Toward the land.
Example Sentences:
(1) It did not come steadily but lurched, hauling up and landward in huge jerks.
(2) Its chairman, Sir Hayden Philips, said: “Although the depiction, in the film Lawrence of Arabia, of Lawrence leading a sweeping camel charge across the desert into Aqaba in 1917 is probably a romantic exaggeration – stunning though it is – the taking of Aqaba from the landward side, with the help of [Arab allies], was an extraordinary feat and marked a crucial turning point in the campaign.
(3) The world was still reeling, investigation barely begun, when the Ocean Express, capsized in 1976 with 13 dead, which must have been quietly recomposing itself at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, stood upright in relatively shallow water and strode landward.