DCHP-2
coast ((v.)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
slide down a snow-covered hill, as on a sleigh or toboggan.
- 1828 (1830) Sometimes on a clear frosty night . . . I have watched these little sleds coasting (as it is termed) down the hills. . . .
- 1879 On Christmas day a little girl was coasting with some companions in a field off Pleasant Street, when she coasted over a stone wall on to the street, and was . . . badly hurt.
- 1903 The young people were having a gay time coasting down hill over the "crust" on Dudley Moore's traineau. . . .
- 1934 coast, U.S. and Canada.
- 1828 (1830) Sometimes on a clear frosty night . . . I have watched these little sleds coasting (as it is termed) down the hills. . . .