Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Along, by way of, or following a coast: The winds blew coastwise. Coastwise winds contributed to the storm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By way of or along the coast.
- Following the coast: moving or carried on along the coast: as, the coastwise trade.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. by way of, or along the coast
- adj. along or following a coast
Examples
“Every incoming coastwise vessel was boarded by the union officials and its crew sent ashore.”
“But there were coastwise skippers I would have returned and killed when”
“It is doubtful whether this form of coastwise trading can be regarded as an economic business in these days.”
“In the spring of 1919 Commander Stevenson commenced to build up a fleet of schooners and small ketches which had carried the bulk of the coastwise traffic of this country before the war.”
“Through surplus energy from the stream and the sailing ship, coastwise sailing ships permitted the development of ports through which the produce of the interior could be delivered by streams to the seas and oceans.”
Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution
“So, even when only its fuel costs were involved, the locomotive could not directly compete as a form of transportation anywhere that competition between ship and rail was possible, as in coastwise traffic.”
Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution
“My letter, dated the 22nd of June last, will have made your excellency acquainted with the sanguine hopes I entertained, from the appearance of the river, that its termination would be either in interior waters, or coastwise.”
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
“All meantime were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of the same thing.”
“Dublin by means of petrolpropelled riverboats, plying in the fluvial fairway between Island bridge and Ringsend, charabancs, narrow gauge local railways, and pleasure steamers for coastwise navigation (10/— per person per day, guide (trilingual) included).”
“And coastwise throw a steady beam, by which the good ships steer;”
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