acoastadv.
/əˈkəʊst/, U.S. /əˈkoʊst/ Now rare.
To or by the coast; ashore.
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the world > the earth > land > [adverb]
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1579 T. Stevens Let. 10 Nov. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 161 After we had lost ankers, hoising vp the sailes for to get the ship a coast in some safer place.
1598 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 37 Thence to the Suns Vprist The cruel Tartar went, that roameth where he list All ore those quarters huge: and thence acoast the Set Was stoar'd the land that Rha doth neare his rising fret, The shore of Liuonie, the plaines of Moscouie, Biarmie..and Scrifinie.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 99 Doth Duty now expect me To march a-coast, or guard my weak ones near?
1993 CNN (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 5 Jan. An eyewitness to the grounding of the oil tanker which has run acoast off the Shetland islands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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