Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The outline of a shore or coast.

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Examples

  • Latuya Bay called loudest, so that the summer of 1898 found him and his wife threading the mazes of the broken coast-line in seventy-foot Siwash canoes.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.

    Chapter 28 2010

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • The coast-line is incredibly scenic and sparsely inhabited but didn't find the beach at Playa Azul and the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, attractive.

    Michoacan Redux 2009

  • Do they have a right to a country where they control its borders, military, air space, immigration, and coast-line?

    Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

  • The coast-line appears to be of the Atlantic, not the Pacific type, and may owe its position and trend to a great fault, or series of faults, in the line of which the range of volcanoes, Mt Melbourne, Mt Erebus, and Mt Discovery, stand.

    Perspective of Antarctica in 1911 2009

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