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East Coastn.

Brit. /ˌiːs(t) ˈkəʊst/, U.S. /ˌis(t) ˈkoʊst/
Forms: see east adv., adj., and n.1 and coast n. Also with lower-case initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: east adj., coast n.
Etymology: < east adj. + coast n.
The eastern coast of a country or region; spec. (a) the easternmost part of the North Island of New Zealand, esp. the area between Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty; (b) the eastern coastal region of the United States, esp. the north-eastern states.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun]
jurisdictionc1380
East Coasta1382
roomth1537
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > Atlantic states
East Coasta1382
Atlantic States1789
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xii. 1 These been þe kyngys whom smetyn þe sonys of Jrael & weeldedyn þe lond of hem byȝonde Iordan at þe sonne arisynge, fro þe streem of arnon vnto þe hul of hermon, & al þe est coost þat byholdeþ þe wildernes.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 53 Saylynge forwarde from hence, he came to the Easte coasts of Vraba, whiche thinhabitantes caule Caribana.
1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. 40 On the East coast, then are onely these two Ports Saint Iames and Yabucoa.
1746 Rep. Conduct Sir J. Cope 184 We..have no other Way of carrying ‘Mouth Provision’ with us but by the East Coast.
1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders II. xvii. 183 The east coast is the choice locality of the country. The harbours indenting its shores are all valuable, few on the North Island being obstructed by sand-banks.
1894 Overland Monthly June 653/2 In 1869 the first spats were brought by way of the newly completed overland railroad from the East Coast.
1926 World's Work Sept. 500/1 The danger that the completion of trans-African railways may carry the fever to the East Coast.
1990 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 33 200/2 A particularly high return from the East Coast and a poor return from the small Auckland Central sample.
2006 C. Mandell tr. B.-H. Lévy Amer. Vertigo (U.K. ed.) i. 9 It was here, not too far south of Boston, on the East Coast, which still bears the mark of Europe so clearly, that Alexis de Tocqueville came ashore.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1755 Misc. Corr. 112/1 in Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. Halifax is finely situated for commanding the east coast fishery.
1869 J. Hawthorne Dark Chapter N.Z. Hist. 10 By 1867, manifold conflicting interests had grown up in Poverty Bay and East Coast districts, in the shape of land purchases.
1880 Westm. Rev. Oct. 240/2 The east-coast farmers of the United States have opened up the far west.
1896 Daily News 14 July 9/7 The new vestibule East Coast train.
1904 Poverty Bay (N.Z.) Herald 14 Dec. 2/6 Her father was the chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of the East Coast tribes.
1912 Mariner′s Mirror 2 383/1 May not the word dann, used by Kentish and East Coast fishermen, be the Dutch ton, i.e., barrel, in disguise?
1957 C. G. Seligman Races Afr. (ed. 3) ix. 197 East Coast Bantu..includes the Sambara and Sagara of north-east Tanzania.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June b1/5 East Coast companies..are viewed from California as..slow-moving and obsessed with Wall Street.
C2.
East Coast fever n. (a) a febrile disease epidemic among humans in South Africa (not identified) (obsolete rare). (b) Veterinary Medicine = theileriasis n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers
fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1881 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day iv. 93 (heading) The East Coast Fever.
1904 A. Theiler in Rep. S. Afr. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 203 The disease was originally called Rhodesian Redwater... An improvement in the nomenclature was the words Rhodesian Tick Fever: a still better name is East Coast Fever.
1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. II. i. v. 79 East Coast fever, or ‘African Coast fever’, a very virulent and highly fatal form of piroplasmosis.
2009 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 11 Mar. 22 Its main target is east coast fever in cattle, a disease endemic in east Africa.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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