"coasting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1772, A Select Collection of Letters of the Late Reverend George Whitefield, page 390:",
          "text": "Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.",
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 125:",
          "text": "She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.",
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          "text": "Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. [...] The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.",
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