Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A storm or gale blowing from the southeast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wind, gale, or storm from the southeast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.
- adverb Toward the southeast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strong
wind blowing from thesoutheast
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong wind from the southeast
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Examples
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They are considered vulnerable because loss of their habitat in southeaster Kenya and eastern Tanzania.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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He come home light and anchored off the bar, just as a southeaster was a-comin 'on.
In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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Sometimes a "southeaster" blows up from the Japan Current, or Black Stream, as the Japanese call the warm, dark-blue waters that pour out of the China Sea.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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And so he was content, with Dede at his side, to watch the procession of the days and seasons from the farm-house perched on the canon-lip; to ride through crisp frosty mornings or under burning summer suns; and to shelter in the big room where blazed the logs in the fireplace he had built, while outside the world shuddered and struggled in the storm-clasp of a southeaster.
Chapter XXVI 2010
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Next he attempted the tiny front porch, until a howling southeaster drenched the wheel a night-long.
Chapter 23 2010
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Tom was the only man who dared run the bar in the dark, and that last time, between nightfall and the dawn, with a southeaster breezing up, he had sailed his schooner in and out again.
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Inside another hour there was no doubt that we were in for a southeaster.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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He stole a glance at the rattling windows, looked upward at the beamed roof, and listened for a moment to the savage roar of the southeaster as it caught the bungalow in its bellowing jaws.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper southwester and one ripsnorting southeaster.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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On deck he found the Mary Rogers running off before a howling southeaster.
MAKE WESTING 2010
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