Definition of Coasting

1. a. Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

2. n. A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

Definition of Coasting

1. Verb. (present participle of coast) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coasting

1. coastal trade [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coasting

coastal squeeze
coastally
coasted
coasteering
coaster
coaster brake
coaster wagon
coasters
coasterware
coastguard
coastguardman
coastguardmen
coastguards
coastguardsman
coastguardsmen
coasting (current term)
coastings
coastland
coastlands
coastline
coastlines
coasts
coastward
coastwards
coastwise
coat
coat-hanger
coat-hangers

Literary usage of Coasting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1859)
"coasting TRADE RETURNS. V Varions attempts have been made hitherto to secure accurate returns of the coasting trade of the country, but (bus far the acts of ..."

2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The growth and increasing importance of the coasting trade of India may be ... The steam coasting trade is almost entirely monopolized by British or British ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"The term " coasting trade" is applied to commercial intercourse carried on by means of navigable rivers as well as the sea.1 for " leading, carrying, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The coasting trade is a term well understood. The law has defined it, and all know its ... The enrollment of vessels designed for the coasting trade, ..."

5. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"This more especially imparted to the Eastern and Southern coasts the particular characteristics of coasting trade and coast warfare, in which they differ ..."

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