steep-to

Westerly gales would drive a blockading fleet into the cul-de-sac of the Bay of Biscay whose shores were not merely hostile but wild and steep-to, with rain and fog.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

There were eighty fathoms in the deepest channel and the channel was pretty close to the southern shore at this point, so that the water was steep-to.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

Everywhere else the shore is "steep-to" -- so much so that in many places it is very difficult to reach the sea.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

To rightly get hold of our wintering place one must imagine a low spit of land jutting out into a fiord running, roughly north and south and bounded on both sides by a steep-to coast line indented with glaciers of vast size.

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

The shores on the gulf are steep-to all round; three uninhabited islets basking in the sunshine just outside the cloud veil, and opposite the entrance to the harbour of

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

The shores on the gulf are steep-to all round; three uninhabited islets basking in the sunshine just outside the cloud veil, and opposite the entrance to the harbour of

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

There it takes another great leap into a basin it has hollowed for itself in the steep-to beach.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The beach at Rope Hauen is steep-to; and with the light breeze there was hardly a ripple on it.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

As we opened its steep-to sides, they rounded gradually into a high curve at the skyline, and, at the base, into a foreshore of tumbled rock through which ran a cleft with still water protected by sheer rocks -- a narrow slit, but worth risking with the wind to drive us straight through.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The water being so deep, and the bottom rocky, the position was perilous for sailing-ships, for the prevailing summer wind blows directly on the shore, which is steep-to and affords no shelter.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897