The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coastwise \Coast"wise`\ (-w[imac]z`), Coastways \Coast"ways`\, adv. By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline; as, coastwise winds contributed to the storm.
Wiktionary
a. Along the coast. adv. Along the coast.
WordNet
adj. along or following a coast; "coastal shipping"; "coastwise winds contributed to the storm"
adv. by way of, or along the coast; "we were travelling coastwise"
Usage examples of "coastwise".
The seaman mistook my smile for smirk and reported what he said was coastwise knowledge: that that same Andromeda was currently whoring it in Joppa with a new boyfriend.
Yet one must choose curriculum and major, ally oneself with this circle or that, dissertate upon The Navigation of Sinking Vessels, Coastwise and Celestial, or Foundation Planting for Crooken Campaniles.
He skimmed this rapidly, and a picture came across of a collection of animal-drawn vehicles and primitive railroads, of coastwise shipping infested by pirates, of inclined roadways down which vehicles traveled by gravity, to be hauled up a steep slope for the next stage, the whole so-called transportation system being sluggish, subject to a complete stoppage on every religious feast day, and dependent for continuous performance on a large number of warehouses in which goods periodically piled up and drained out as the erratically functioning parts of the network speeded up or broke down.
As their way lay coastwise for some while Gwalchmai gave the tiller into the hands of the steersman and directed him to hold away from the shore.
They island-hopped, stayed within sight of land, traveled coastwise from point to point.