All 4 Uses of
accost
in
Moby Dick
- I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.†
Chpt 4-6 *accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
- Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab was to be found.†
Chpt 16-18
- Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.†
Chpt 31-33
- As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness—his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a CLEAN one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of Jungfrau or the Virgin.†
Chpt 79-81
Definition:
to approach aggressively or inappropriately