coasting vbl n
   1 1987 FIZZARD 189 'So we came in and cleared out and carried our men home and we went coasting then. We took fluorspar from St Lawrence and carried it in to Sydney and brought back a load of coal for Harbour Grace.' 1988 Evening Telegram 18 June, p. 12 [tape transcript] My father...fished on the Labrador when he was only a young man but he didn't follow it up his whole lifetime. Perhaps he'd go coasting or up around Halifax and then he went to the States.
   2 Attrib ~ schooner, ~ vessel.
   1984 KELLAND 22 They often brought [their dories] into St John's on the decks of the coasting schooners skippered by friends who were voyaging to the capital. [1811] 1987 FIZZARD 72 [Trouble arose] from import of liquors, spirits and wine in particular from St John's by Bye Boatkeepers and coasting vessels going to and forth with fish.

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