Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Northwest; the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees.
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- noun
northwest
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees
- adverb to, toward, or in the northwest
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Examples
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That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!
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So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters - which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.
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So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters — which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.
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So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters - which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.
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That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!
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That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!
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It is going to blow hard too, though that is no great matter, as we are sheltered by banks on the sou'-west and nor'-west sides, the likely quarters.
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Towards evening a nor'-west course was set, which the troops generally accepted as sufficient evidence that Colombo would be the next port of call.
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Catshole, an 'over Brown Willy, an' round Roughtor to the nor'-west: an 'there lies the bravest quag -- oh, a black, bottomless hole!
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Well, the water on board was beginning to smell; so he ran in through the nor'-west entrance of Providence
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