coastwise

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   along a coast or by a route following the coast

   The timber was shipped coastwise rather than carried overland.

2. 2
   adj

   moving, carried, or conducted along a coast or between ports of the same country

   The regulation applied to coastwise trade between domestic ports.

Formed from coast + the directional suffix -wise ('in the direction or manner of'), which descends from Old English wise ('manner, way').

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