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present participle and gerund of coast examples
countable and uncountable, plural coastings
The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port. quotations examples
Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.
1772, A Select Collection of Letters of the Late Reverend George Whitefield, page 390
She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 125
The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power. quotations examples
Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. [...] The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.
2020 September 23, “Network News: AWC employs coasting to minimise disruption”, in Rail, page 26