the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates |
the area within view | a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849) |
the shore of a sea or ocean | a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries |
a slope down which sleds may coast | |