coastwise
coastways old use

Guide spent the first year of her career in coastwise operations off California.

North China had few ports and little coastwise trade.

The bunch that lay over from foreign boats, or coastwise vessels.

It is doubtful whether this form of coastwise trading can be regarded as an economic business in these days.

He wants me, us, to invest with him in a coastwise steamship line."

Now will there be five, six of the coastwise lords tearing at each other's flanks to take his place.

There might be a few coastwise ships out here, but they'll pick us up on radar and steer clear."

She escorted coastwise traffic between ports along the eastern seaboard.

The bound measure also regulated the coastwise slave trade.

"Hiding in the gulf and preying on coastwise shipping are two different propositions."

We are not-were not-blood brothers of the coastwise people.

Active coastwise settlement by Chinese colonists... was under way.

The Tropical, however, is a coastwise vessel.

On the chart were colored pins that represented the positions of certain coastwise vessels, according to latest reports.

A coastwise freighter, several commercial fishing boats, and a small cruiser hove into sight.

The valley is one of the largest tobacco-producing sections in the Philippines; and the town has a considerable coastwise trade.

Even The Shadow supposed that the reporter was a passenger aboard a coastwise vessel.

Dory recognized the trio as crew members of a coastwise barge flotilla.

He discovered three ships and two small coastwise vessels, as well as a ferry to the opposite shore.

With our damned bar and our damned rocks, there is hardly any coastwise trade.

Coastwise ships are hard to find, and winds blow north when all brave hearts would fain be speeding south.

When slaves were the merchandise being transported by cabotage, the practice was called the coastwise slave trade.

"I was at sea, off Iguape, on a small coastwise tanker that supplies the harbors along here.

Other yuccas, cacti, low herbs, a thousand sorts, one finds journeying east from the coastwise hills.

The coastwise slave trade existed along the eastern coastal areas of the United States in the antebellum years prior to 1861.