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coastwise

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coast·wise  (kstwz)
adv. & adj.
Along, by way of, or following a coast: The winds blew coastwise. Coastwise winds contributed to the storm.
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Adj.1.coastwise - along or following a coast; "coastal shipping"; "coastwise winds contributed to the storm"
coastal - located on or near or bordering on a coast; "coastal marshes"; "coastal waters"; "the Atlantic coastal plain"
Adv.1.coastwise - by way of, or along the coast; "we were travelling coastwise"


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And, completely to put the quietus on any last lingering hopes he might have had of her, he was in the thick of his spectacular and intensely bitter fight with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company, and the Hawaiian, Nicaraguan, and Pacific-Mexican Steamship-Company.
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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.
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The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
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