Fromqueen +‎-ward.

queenward (notcomparable)

1. Towards aqueen.
   • 1527?,Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, published1965, page1443:

     The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to thequeenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”

   • 1879 June 28, “Beaconsfield and Peel”, inThe Evening Star‎^[1], volume53, number8,186, Washington, D.C.:

     It is a letter in which, courtward andQueenward, Sir Robert uses very strong language, calling the statement ofVanity Fair “a very impudent expression of the latest development of the ridiculous imperialism of the present day;” “a clear breach of privilege, recalling the most stupid exhibitions of royal misconduct.”

   • 1963,Norah Lofts,Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I,Simon & Schuster, published2009,→ISBN,page228:

     What had been the comrades’ talk? The Queen. Whither had all their hopes winged?Queenward.

   • 1987,Appalachian Heritage, page17:

     At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surgingqueenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.

   • 2005 October 9, Amarande, “Oppsite-side castling”, inrec.games.chess.analysis (Usenet):

     In case A, O-O-O is pretty much ironclad safe for Black; the c-file is full open, but a single line does not a successful attack make (unless defensive forces are congested, but Black's strength pointsQueenward), and there is no way, if Black's a and b pawns are unmoved, for White to force open any additional lines (3v3 can open a file by force, but 2v2 cannot).

   • 2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, inKramnik: Move by Move,Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess Challenge 2012, Four Knights Game):

     The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to rollqueenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.

   • 2016,Ian Tregillis,Radio Free Tresmigistus (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, season one, episode 07)),Serial Box,→ISBN:

     He turned his attention back to the radio he'd confiscated from Tatiana Morozova’s flat. Right now it was plugged into the mains under his desk, its back cover laid carefully on the desk, a screwdriver and four screws sittingqueenward of a forlorn king’s bishop.

   • 2017, Tom Kennedy,Sapphire the Dragon, Page Publishing, Inc.,→ISBN:

     Begin walking antqueenward people.