adverb. To or onto the shore.

adverb. On land.

On shore; on or to the land adjacent to water: as, bring the goods ashore; the ship was driven ashore.

On land: opposed to aboard or afloat: as, the captain of the ship remained ashore.

adverb. On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

adverb. On the land as opposed to onboard

adverb. On, or towards the shore

adverb. towards the shore from the water

"The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill."