The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coasting \Coast"ing\, a. Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished from foreign trade or trade involving long voyages.
Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.
Usage examples of "coasting trade".
She carried an assortment of merchandise for trading with the natives of the seaboard and of the interior, together with the frame of a schooner, to be employed in the coasting trade.
There was not much doubt that at night they could run past the boom, and, taking everyone in the lagoon by surprise, could work swift havoc on the coasting trade.
A little coasting trade in caiques from Rhodes - not so much of that now, sir.
A little coasting trade in caiques from Rhodes not so much of that now, sir.
They were of all shapes and sizes: tankers, big freighters, small ships which would surely have been better off in the coasting trade than trying the hazards of an Atlantic passage.
The Governor and his troops lived on what they could squeeze from the small coasting trade and by taxing the locals.