Definition of "coastways" []

• Same as coastwise.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "New South Wales coastways, 48 voyages, at 10 each, average 12_l."
• "But the legislature, instead of a bounty, has imposed a tax of three shillings and three-pence a ton upon coal carried coastways; which upon most sorts of coal is more than sixty per cent. of the original price at the coal-pit."