Definitions
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- adverb to, toward, or in the southwest
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Examples
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And then came another sou'west gale that tore our f ore-topsail and brand new spencer out of the belt-ropes and swept us away to a conjectured longitude east of Staten
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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"Course sou'west by south, sir," said Prowse, breathlessly returning.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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"Course is sou'west by west, half west, sir," he said.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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I'll go half-speed to the sou'west for twelve hours, another twelve hours half-speed back.
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Away in the sou'west, a glare in the sky that was rapidly fading with the growing morn indicated the search-lights of the
The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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And then came another sou'west gale that tore our f ore-topsail and brand new spencer out of the belt - ropes and swept us away to a conjectured longitude east of Staten
Chapter 35 1914
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Thus we slid through the velvet night with the Double Cross hanging low, sou'west by south.
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And it was not many hours before little Rénee was scudding away from the school of Divinity, like a clipper-ship under a full spread of canvas, before a rousing sou'west breeze.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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And they swung sou'west by sou 'to leave the Hebrides to port.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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To port they left the Seven Hunters, changing the course to sou'west by sou '....
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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