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In a Word: Making Sense of Coasters | The Saturday Evening Post

We begin with the Latin word costa, which originally meant “rib” ( intercostal means “between the ribs”) but expanded to mean “side, flank.” This became the Old French coste with the same meaning, but it also began to appear in the phrase “coast of the sea,” likening the side of one’s body to the side of the land. It’s this meaning of coste that became the Middle English noun coast, meaning “seashore.” About this time, we find our first coasters, but they had nothing to do with drinks; they were ships. Coasters would sail along the coast, coasting, as it were. (Navigation is much simplified when you can just keep the coastline to one side of the ship.) Coasters were often engaged in trading between two ports within the same country.

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