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coast
1. Land beside the sea.
2. To move forward by momentum, without applying power or cause something to move in this way.
3. To progress with very little effort.
4. Etymology: from Old French coste, "shore, coast"; from Latin costa, "a rib, a side", developing a sense in Medieval Latin (Latin as written and spoken about 700 to around1500) of the shore as the "side" of the land.
2. To move forward by momentum, without applying power or cause something to move in this way.
3. To progress with very little effort.
4. Etymology: from Old French coste, "shore, coast"; from Latin costa, "a rib, a side", developing a sense in Medieval Latin (Latin as written and spoken about 700 to around1500) of the shore as the "side" of the land.
French also used this word for "hillside, slope"; which led to the verb use of "sled downhill."
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(Latin: rib, ribs; side; coast)