adv. & a. [see -WISE.]
A. adv. By way of the coast, along the coast.
1691. Lond. Gaz., No. 2658/1. Ships Trading Coastwise.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., V. ii. (1869), II. 499. Goods carried coastwise.
1817–8. Cobbett, Resid. U.S. (1822), 1. That part of the United States, which, coastwise, extends from Boston to the Bay of Chesapeake.
1846. Grote, Greece, II. xxii. 521. He would then sail, still coastwise, to Syracuse or to Cumæ.
B. adj. Following the coast; carried on along the coast; as ‘a coastwise trade.’
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. iv. 42. During our coastwise drift.
1885. Sat. Rev., 11 July, 42. A number of small steamers make coastwise excursions.
