coasting trade

American  

noun

1. trade between ports along the same coast.

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Etymology

Origin of coasting trade

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

It has charge of the registration of American vessels engaged in the foreign trade, and of the enrollment and licensing of vessels in the coasting trade.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford

As I told Prescott, Merril has a notion of going into the coasting trade, and wants our carrying.

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold

In a moment, the commerce of the American republic, from being, in point of extent, the second in the world, was reduced to a coasting trade between the individual states.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton

As a youth he fled from home to escape a clerical education, but afterwards joined his father in the coasting trade.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Maranh�o is situated about fourteen hundred miles north of Rio Janeiro, with which port it carries on an extensive coasting trade.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray