sea-coast
1. The land adjacent to the sea; = coast n. 4.
| 13.. Coer de L. 4782 Kyng Richard and Phelyp, with her hoost; Wente foorth be the see-coost. a 1451 Fortescue Wks. (1869) 551 The coost of France is no longer by the narow see coost than from Calyce in Pycardy unto Seynt Malous in Bretany. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 6 Those white rocks..Which all along the Southerne sea-coast lay, Threatning vnheedie wrecke. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World iii. vii. §5. 83 All the Sea-coast..[was] exposed to the waste of an enemie too farre ouer-matching him. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. II. 164 To defend the sea-coasts of his own dominions. 1831 Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 336 Prussia..has a considerable range of sea-coast. 1876 A. S. Murray Mythol. iii. (1877) 38 The Sirens are strictly personifications, not of the sea, but of the dangers of the sea-coast to sailors. |
2. attrib. or adj.
| 1622 Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 146 The Sea-coast Townes of France. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 103 So that I fancy'd now I had my Country House, and my Sea-Coast-House. 1866 Treas. Bot. s.v. Lavatera, L. arborea..being a common plant in sea-coast cottage gardens. |
Hence † sea-coaster, a wrecker; † sea-coasting a., situated on the sea-coast.
| c 1550 in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. (1902) XVI. 83 [To assist ship-owners against pillage by the] sea-coasters. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xviii. ii. 657 But their opinion that make Aegialia to be a sea-coasting citty is better. |