coastwise
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of coastwise
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It could also suppress the coastwise slave trade and abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2021
Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their coastwise owners, like the rest of the Province's 24,000 Japanese, have been staying close to home.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to lines in domestic coastwise trade it presaged disaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Wilson issued a proclamation on April 11, giving Secretary McAdoo control of the principal coastwise steamship lines.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
