coasting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]coasting
- present participle and gerund of coast
Noun
[edit]coasting (countable and uncountable, plural coastings)
- The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
- 1772, A Select Collection of Letters of the Late Reverend George Whitefield, page 390:
- Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 125:
- She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.
- The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power.
- 2020 September 23, “Network News: AWC employs coasting to minimise disruption”, in Rail, page 26:
- 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.