COASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coaster mean? 

• COASTER (noun)
  The noun COASTER has 3 senses:

1. a resident of a coastal area

2. someone who coasts

3. a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)

  Familiarity information: COASTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resident of a coastal area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("coaster" is a kind of...):

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who coasts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("coaster" is a kind of...):

mover (someone who moves)

Derivation:

coast (move effortlessly; by force of gravity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("coaster" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

 Context examples 

For many Cancers, their relationship with this important person in their lives has been a roller-coaster ride, but not for everyone of this sign, so let’s look closer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And if you’ve money, my son, and know how to handle it and spread it, you can do anything! Now, you don’t think it likely that a man who could do anything is going to wear his breeches out sitting in the stinking hold of a rat-gutted, beetle-ridden, mouldy old coffin of a China coaster.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The line-of-battle ships themselves, tacking on and off outside Brest, could earn nothing save honour; but the frigates in attendance made prizes of many coasters, and these, as is the rule of the service, were counted as belonging to the fleet, and their produce divided into head-money.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On their journey home through the woods Alleyne learnt their wondrous story: how, when Sir Nigel came to his senses, he with his fellow-captive had been hurried to the coast, and conveyed by sea to their captor's castle; how upon the way they had been taken by a Barbary rover, and how they exchanged their light captivity for a seat on a galley bench and hard labor at the pirate's oars; how, in the port at Barbary, Sir Nigel had slain the Moorish captain, and had swum with Aylward to a small coaster which they had taken, and so made their way to England with a rich cargo to reward them for their toils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)