accoast

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkəʊst/

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• Rhymes: -əʊst

Verb

accoast (third-person singular simple present accoasts, present participle accoasting, simple past and past participle accoasted)

1. Obsolete form of accost (“sail along the coast or lie alongside”).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     […] whether high towering or accoasting low […]