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COASTWISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coastwise mean? 

COASTWISE (adjective)
  The adjective COASTWISE has 1 sense:

1. along or following a coastplay

  Familiarity information: COASTWISE used as an adjective is very rare.


COASTWISE (adverb)
  The adverb COASTWISE has 1 sense:

1. by way of, or along the coastplay

  Familiarity information: COASTWISE used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COASTWISE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Along or following a coast

Context example:

coastwise winds contributed to the storm

Similar:

coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)


COASTWISE (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

By way of, or along the coast

Context example:

we were travelling coastwise


 Context examples 


But there were coastwise skippers I would have returned and killed when a man’s strength came to me, only the lines of my life were cast at the time in other places.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Of the meagreness of a child’s life? of fish diet and coarse living? of going out with the boats from the time I could crawl? of my brothers, who went away one by one to the deep-sea farming and never came back? of myself, unable to read or write, cabin-boy at the mature age of ten on the coastwise, old-country ships? of the rough fare and rougher usage, where kicks and blows were bed and breakfast and took the place of speech, and fear and hatred and pain were my only soul-experiences? I do not care to remember.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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