coastwise

Related to coastwise: coastwise navigation

coast·wise

(kōst′wīz′)

adv. & adj.

Along, by way of, or following a coast: winds that blew coastwise; strong coastwise winds.

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coastwise

(ˈkəʊstwaɪz)

adj, adv

along the coast

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coast•wise

(ˈkoʊstˌwaɪz)

adv.

1. along the coast.

adj.

2. following the coast.

[1685–95]

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Adj.	1.	coastwise - along or following a coast; "coastal shipping"; "coastwise winds contributed to the storm" coastal - located on or near or bordering on a coast; "coastal marshes"; "coastal waters"; "the Atlantic coastal plain"
Adv.	1.	coastwise - by way of, or along the coast; "we were travelling coastwise"

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And, completely to put the quietus on any last lingering hopes he might have had of her, he was in the thick of his spectacular and intensely bitter fight with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company, and the Hawaiian, Nicaraguan, and Pacific-Mexican Steamship-Company.

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So I saw the stars close overhead, and the fishermen's torches far below, the coastwise lights and the crimson hieroglyph that spelt Vesuvius, before I plunged into the darkness of the shaft.

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We held a good lift to clear the coastwise and Continental shipping; and we had need of it.

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