Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A strong wind coming from the west.
- v. To move westward. Used of the sun, the moon, or a star.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To tend or move toward the west; trend or turn westward.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. wind that blows from west to east
Etymologies
- Middle English westren, from west, west; see west.
Examples
“There are no currents to speak of about here; and as we have run south-westwards before the north-easter, if we run back in an opposite direction before the south-wester, which is not far off now from setting in, why we must arrive pretty nearly at the same point from which we started.”
“Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter, for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century.”
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
“The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.”
“The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the nearby Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.”
“The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" -- a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.”
“The national weather office said that the thunderstorm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" -- a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year.”
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
“The national weather office said that the thunderstorm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year.”
“The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the nearby Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the local weather office told AFP.”
“Officials say that the storm - which also killed two people in the Rangpur area of Bangladesh - was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year.”
“I wisht to God a nor'wester'd come along an 'blow the Solomons clean to hell.”
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bilby Scots - westernmost. Dec 26, 2007