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† a-coast, adv., prop. phr. Obs.
Also 3–4 acost.
[a prep.1 + coast. The earlier a-cost was a direct adoption of OFr. à coste, mod. à côte: see coast.]
1. At one side, by the side, by the coast. See acost.
2. Ashore.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 100 After we had lost ancres, hoising vp the sailes for to get the ship a coast in some safer place. |