coastwise

Speech parts

1. coastwise - Adjective

2. coastwise - Adverb

4. coastwise - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Coastways

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bank coast beach littoral coastal maritime laterally buttress coastline beachfront seaward inshore cabotage longshore beachy
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Antonyms

inland

Phrases with the word

coastwise navigation

Examples

coastal shipping Source: Internet

coastwise winds contributed to the storm Source: Internet

we were travelling coastwise Source: Internet

The United States continued to protect the domestic slave trade, including the coastwise trade, the transport of slaves by ship along the Atlantic Coast and to New Orleans and other Gulf ports. Source: Internet

Many slaves were transported by ship in the coastwise slave trade from the Upper South. Source: Internet

Post-emancipation main In the 1830s and 1840s, tensions rose between Britain and the United States after American merchant ships, part of the coastwise slave trade, put into Nassau or were wrecked on its reefs. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

coastwatching coastways coastwide coastwise navigation coat coat armour