Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A storm or gale blowing from the southwest.
- n. A waterproof hat of material such as plastic, oilskin, or canvas, with a broad brim behind to protect the neck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A southwest wind, gale, or storm.
- n. A hat of water-proof material, of which the brim is made very broad behind, so as to protect the neck from rain: usually sou'wester.
Wiktionary
- n. A strong wind blowing from the southwest.
- n. A waterproof hat, often of oilskin, designed to repel wind and rain.
- n. A long raincoat, often worn at sea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.
- n. A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a strong wind from the southwest
Examples
“A southwester, which is usually pronounced and sometimes spelled”
“In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper southwester and one ripsnorting southeaster.”
“Meanwhile, we had a cold November followed by one chinook/southwester/easterly after another.”
“Lee County, Florida is in the southwester, part of the state.”
“Amyas could not sail the next day, or the day after; for the southwester freshened, and blew three parts of a gale dead into the bay.”
“Based on our experiences in the first sounding, the necessary preparations were taken to enable the team to reach an ever greater depth in the second sounding just outside the southwester corner pillar of frigidarium 1.”
“They rounded Cape St. John expecting a deadly southwester, but found instead as fine a day as anyone could wish, clear and crisp like October in New England.”
“Except for one wild southwester that broke the pin in the mizzen topsail yard and sent it into the rigging, all signs seemed in their favor.”
“Then we ran down the Illyrian coast and, with oars at full speed, sail bellying with a powerful southwester, rounded the Italian peninsula with a strong wind for Sicilia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where we ran into a small flotilla of black-sailed ships expectantly lying in wait for us.”
“He was like a grampus when he set his teeth, and a southwester couldn't blow harder if he chose.”
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
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Is the scientist causing ...rain, sprinkle, droplets, shower, precipitation, freezing rain, drops, drizzle, sleet, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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