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Definition of Coastwise
1. Adjective. Along or following a coast. "Coastwise winds contributed to the storm"
2. Adverb. By way of, or along the coast. "We were travelling coastwise"
Definition of Coastwise
1. adv. By way of, or along, the coast.
Definition of Coastwise
1. Adjective. Toward the coast ¹
2. Adverb. Towards the coast ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coastwise
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coastwise
Literary usage of Coastwise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1922)
"Importance of cotton culture to the coastwise trade, 332. Nature of the trade of
the South ... Foreign vessels excluded from the coastwise trade, 1817,336. ..."
2. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"The coastwise shipments and receipts of lumber at Gulf and Atlantic ports ...
The coastwise receipts of southern pine at New York afford an index of this ..."
3. The Port of Boston: A Study and a Solution of the Traffic and Operating by Edwin Jones Clapp (1916)
"With regard to railroad tracks on the coastwise piers, New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore are no better off than Boston. In Baltimore there is no rail ..."
4. Historical Record of the City of Savannah by F. D. Lee, J. L. Agnew (1869)
"325000 bushels of wheat, coastwise—valued at £445000. 23500 boxes copper ore,
coastwise—valued at $352,- 500. Sundries—valued at $1000000. ..."
5. The Laws of the Customs, Compiled by Direction of the Lords Commissioners of by James Deacon Hume (1825)
"A TABLE of the DUTIES of CUSTOMS payable on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize brought
or sent coastwise from one Port or Place to any other Port or Place within ..."
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