Definitions for coasters

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coasters coast·er

Spelling: [koh-ster]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ stər/

Coasters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 478 anagrams from letters in coasters (aceorsst).

Definitions for coasters

noun

1. a person or thing that coasts.
2. a small dish, tray, or mat, especially for placing under a glass to protect a table from moisture.
3. a ship engaged in coastwise trade.
4. a sled for coasting.
5. a tray for holding a decanter to be passed around a dining table.
6. roller coaster.

Origin of coasters

First recorded in 1565-75; coast + -er¹

Examples for coasters

Many freighters have what they call a coaster hitched to the last wagon.

Then there was some probability of being put in a coaster; which we might run away with.

A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man.

A stained, ringed leather Milwaukee Brewers coaster (I used to live five minutes from the stadium).

He had gone aboard one of the vessels—a coaster from Boston.

At sunrise the schooner weighed anchor, in order to accompany the coaster.

The master of a merchant vessel or coaster in the Mediterranean.

He was a coaster and he was naturally cautious, as Apple-treers are obliged to be.

To meet these difficulties, I hastened the building of my vessel as a coaster.

The brigantine was not a Turks Islands boat, but a coaster from Jamaica.