nor'-nor'-east

I have the uncomfortable feeling that if we got anywhere near Aberdeen the Germans would have a submarine, maybe two, loitering somewhere off Peterhead - that's about twenty-five miles nor'-nor'-east of Aberdeen - with orders not to let us move any further south.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

The ebb's just setting in from the nor'-nor'-east and will carry you back here.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

The wind is fair at nor'-nor'-east and we can make the passage as soon as day breaks, in half an hour, My Lord.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

When my ball goes off nor'-nor'-east when I want it to go due west I can't help expressing an opinion about it.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

"Fire," said Bill, "in the form of a common cowshed, is burnin 'about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies."

The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay 1924

'Fire,' said Bill, 'in the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies. '

The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924

"Ten to the east, ten to the west, ten to the nor'-nor'-east, ten to -"

The Holiday Round 1919

The _Nancy Bell_ was then steering nor'-nor'-east and some ten miles off the land, with the wind coming from the northward and westward in squalls.

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

Before that moment arrived, however, a little air of wind came along out from the westward, and, with our port braces slightly checked, we began to creep away on a nor'-nor'-east course for Boeroe Strait.

Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886

North: north by east; nor'-nor'-east; nor'-east by north; nor'-east; nor'-east by east; east nor'-east; east by north; east; -- and so on with the other quarters of the circle.

Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859