Word Meanings - ALONGSHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Along the shore or coast.

Related words: (words related to ALONGSHORE)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• COASTING
  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 fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• ALONG
  Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• ALONGST
  Along.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• ALONGSHOREMAN
  See LONGSHOREMAN
• SHORELING
  See SHORLING
• SHORE
  A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath (more info) schoore, Icel. skor, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• ROLLER COASTER
  An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• ALALONGA; ALILONGHI
  The tunny. See Albicore.
• SEACOAST
  The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
• OFFSHORE
  From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
• DOGSHORE
  One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.