coast v To ship or transport (cargoes) between settlements in a 'coasting vessel.'
   1936 SMITH 20 While coasting [around Conception Bay communities] we took on board 1,100 quintals of shore fish and a deck load of herring, and sailed for St John's and discharged our cargo at Baine Johnston & Co. 1975 BUTLER 70 He operated coasting vessels, passenger boats and he had some vessels of one hundred and twenty tons to one hundred and forty tons in the foreign coasting trade coasting salt bulk fish to Lunenberg and Halifax and bringing back coal and produce from Sydney and Prince Edward Island. 1978 Evening Telegram 8 Sep, p. 2 After its construction at Port Union, the Swile spent about a dozen years at the seal hunt ... and then went 'coasting' with a crew of six men, bringing supplies to various parts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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