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northeasterly

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Word definitions for northeasterly in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northeasterly \North`east"er*ly\, a. Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coming from the northeast; "northeasterly winds" [syn: northeast ] situated in or oriented toward the northeast; "the northeasterly part of the island" [syn: northeastern , northeast ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 situated in, or pointing towards the northeast 2 (context of a wind etc English) coming from the northeast

Usage examples of northeasterly.

Last we had him, he was at flank speed on a steady northeasterly bearing.

The ship was some ninety miles northeast of Truk, the weather good but with rain clouds around and a light northeasterly breeze.

There is a small spring, perhaps a mile from the pueblo in a northeasterly direction, but this source would have been wholly insufficient for the needs of so large a village.

But they put out across the mud flats and sandbars of that unsuitable harbor just before midnight and turned to follow a stiff northeasterly breeze, just right for sailing down the coast.

The two rode slowly, without speaking, in a northeasterly direction down the long eastern side of Westridge.

STREET STARTED DOWN BY THE RIVER, just north of the statehouse, and ran in a northeasterly direction.

It was a chilly night of cold northeasterly rain, and I made a fire for the first time in the Franklin stove in my room, and begged my two housemates to come in and keep me company.

The cliffs for many miles had been trending in a northeasterly direction, indicating to Bradley that they were approaching the northern extremity of the island.

Temperatures today will reach five degrees centigrade, forty-one Fahrenheit, in most places, and the northeasterly wind will moderate slightly.

Spring was coming through, interpreted by the music of the day, and it was spring as we know it, April of the latest, though the flowers were all behind this year, a blare of northeasterly brass, interjectory flicks of cold mud, an earache of discordant blasts, an April symphony of squalls, hail, and unemployment .

The helmsman applied five degrees of right rudder, gently bringing the submarine to a northeasterly course.

There is the lake country at the north, covered with forests, and the summit level occupied by four great inland seas, which pour their waters down over the precipice of Niagara into the lowermost lake, and thence flow off in a northeasterly direction into the ocean.

Northeasterly, the Beothuks have their home on a fair land, though cold, since the sinking of Atlantis diverted the warm sea currents from their shores.