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▪ I. coasting, vbl. n.|ˈkəʊstɪŋ|
[f. coast v. and n.]
1. Sailing along the coast, or trading between the ports of a country. (See also 5.)
1679J. Goodman Penitent Pard. i. ii. (1713) 17 They are forced to sail by coasting, as they call it. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xii. (1840) 207 He was..for coasting up the West side of America. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 510 The most delightful voyages those which are a coasting along the land.
2. The configuration of the coast; delineation of a coast-line.
1621Hakewill David's Vow 95 The coasting of the whole world represented in a little map. 1712Hughes Spect. No. 554 ⁋4 These, therefore, he could only mark down, like imperfect Coastings in Maps, or supposed Points of Land, to be further discovered.
†3. In the following mod. edd. read accosting; but coasting may be used in that sense: cf. coast v. 8, 9.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 59 Oh these encounterers so glib of tongue, That giue a coasting welcome ere it comes.
4. a. The winter sport of sliding on a sled down hill. Hence b. The action of shooting down hill on a bicycle or tricycle. Also attrib. orig. U.S.
1775J. Eliot in Belknap Papers (1877) III. 77 There is a declivity..which in the winter season the boys make use of as a coasting-place. Ibid., The General at first did not understand what they meant by the term coasting. 1832S. G. Goodrich Syst. Univ. Geogr. 201 Coasting is another winter pastime, in which..the labor seems to be at least equal to the pleasure. c1855‘Fanny Fern’ (Bartl.), I guess aunt Libby never broke one of the runners of her sled some Saturday afternoon, when it was prime coasting. 1859W. Boyd Swartzen (1865) 4 Aboriginal toboggan, Excellent for coasting-party. 1885New Bk. Sports 234 In Canada the people have almost given up the ordinary style of coasting, for a variation of the sport known as toboganning. 1887Wheeling 6 July 208/1 As a ‘coasting’ saddle it is unexcelled. 1896Punch LXI. 185 ‘In the joys of the wheel,’ he will often declare, ‘there is nothing can come up to coasting.’ 1911E. Wharton Ethan Frome i. 30 The pitch of the Corbury road..was the favourite coasting-ground of Starkfield.
c. Also of a motor vehicle.
1921A. F. Hall Handbk. Yosemite Nat. Park 308 Many drivers have the habit of coasting with their gears out of mesh. 1928Daily Mail 25 July 7/5 Top gear in the Willys-Knight feels like free coasting in other cars. 1959Times 25 Sept. 6/3 The car carried three people throughout, no coasting was allowed.
5. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 1), as coasting-duty, coasting-pilot, coasting-trade, coasting-vessel; † coasting iron, ? the iron in the sides of a ship.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, xxxii, The Adamant, wch drew The Coasting Iron from the late proud Keeles. 1693Capt. Collins (title), Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3826/3 With 4 or 5 Coasting-Vessels, under their Convoy. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxvi. (1841) I. 259 Our coasting trade is exceeding great. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. vi. 345 Our sheet-anchor being obviously much too heavy for a coasting anchor. 1774Hull Dock Act 27 Such ships or vessels as shall pass coastwise, and be called coasting vessels. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. iv. 63 The master of one of the canoes offered to remain on board as coasting pilot.
▪ II. ˈcoasting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
†1. Bordering, adjacent. Obs.
c1400Mandeville xvii. (1839) 186 Ne Scotland ne Norwaye ne the other Yles costynge to hem.
†2. Traversing, moving about. Obs.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 6 True Investigations of heats and colds, and of the breadths and bounds of coasting Rains and Winds.
3. Sailing along the coast.
a1843Southey Inscriptions xx, A name..Known only to the coasting mariner. |