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Coast ((n.))

• 1 n. See 1958 quote.

  • This meaning is general among Westerners. Easterners often use the term to refer to the Atlantic Coast, especially Halifax.

  • 1903  High River race horses have been turning tricks in good shape at the coast.
  • 1938  Some of the mines in the district had recently closed down, and it was filled with miners and their families trying to get to the Coast.
  • 1958  Here, I should insert that the coast of British Columbia and "The Coast" are birds of two different feathers. The coast extends from the International Boundary to Prince Rupert, more than five hundred miles north. "The Coast," according to popular British Columbian geography, begins with Point Atkinson at the junction of the northwest waters of Burrard Inlet and Gulf of Georgia. The southern fragment, including Vancouver, is known as Lower Mainland.
  • 1962  Jones is employed by . . . a pioneer chopper firm on the coast that helped in the construction of the pipeline. . . .

• 2 n. Local the southern coast of Labrador.

  • 1861  We generally wear what on the coast are called "creepers," which are made in the shape of a cross with thick "starts," and which are much the same as cricketers wear in England.
  • 1952  His grandmother, who had raised thirteen children, had left the Coast the previous fall and had seen, for the first time, the same things that her grandson now saw: streets, roads, cows. . . .