COASTGUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coastguard mean? 

• COASTGUARD (noun)
  The noun COASTGUARD has 1 sense:

1. a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters

  Familiarity information: COASTGUARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COASTGUARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "coastguard"):

coastguardsman (a member of a coastguard)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coastguard"):

U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)

 Context examples 

When I arrived, however, I found already assembled on the pier a crowd, whom the coastguard and police refused to allow to come on board.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The coastguard said the man must have tied up his own hands, fastening the knots with his teeth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spy-glass under his arm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The coastguard ran aft, and when he came beside the wheel, bent over to examine it, and recoiled at once as though under some sudden emotion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Thus the coastguard on duty on the eastern side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the little pier, was the first to climb on board.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was no wonder that the coastguard was surprised, or even awed, for not often can such a sight have been seen.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The coastguard on duty at once made report, and one old fisherman, who for more than half a century has kept watch on weather signs from the East Cliff, foretold in an emphatic manner the coming of a sudden storm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)