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  • noun Plural form of southeaster.

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Examples

  • Never a wisp of smoke anywhere save in the pointed channel, and that during the big southeasters.

    Chapter IX 2010

  • During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • It was a solidly-built house, such as even in the early part of the nineteenth century men were complaining they could no longer obtain; built to weather centuries of biting southeasters, and -- the legend ran -- to afford protection in its early days against Indians.

    The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold

  • During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.

    Small-Boat Sailing 1917

  • At the very apex of the headland that shelters the Bight of Tyee, in a cuplike depression several acres in extent, on the northern side and ideally situated two hundred feet below the crest, thus permitting the howling southeasters to blow over it, Hector McKaye, in the fulness of time, had built for himself a not very large two-story house of white stone native to the locality.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.

    Small Boat Sailing With Jack London 1912

  • During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.

    The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing 1912

  • During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.

    Small-Boat Sailing:Jack London Ranch Album 1912

  • Never a wisp of smoke anywhere save in the pointed channel, and that during the big southeasters.

    Chapter IX 1910

  • But Captain Wilson tells me that the climate has altered; that the southeasters are no longer the bane of the coast they once were, and that vessels now anchor inside the kelp at Santa Barbara and San Pedro all the year round.

    Twenty Four Years Later 1909

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