Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong wind coming from the west.
- intransitive verb To move westward. Used of the sun, the moon, or a star.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To tend or move toward the west; trend or turn westward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strong
westerly wind . - verb To move towards the
west
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wind that blows from west to east
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"There are no currents to speak of about here; and as we have run south-westwards before the north-easter, if we run back in an opposite direction before the south-wester, which is not far off now from setting in, why we must arrive pretty nearly at the same point from which we started."
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Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter, for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century.
Chapter XXVIII. An Old Friend-A Victim-California Rangers-News from Home-Last Looks 1909
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Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter, for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent north-easter, for this rascally hole of San Pedro is unsafe in every wind but a south-wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the nearby Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
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The storm was an extreme form of what is locally known as a "nor'wester" - a weather pattern that develops over the Bay of Bengal during the hot months of the year, the West Bengal weather office said.
bilby commented on the word wester
Scots - westernmost.
December 26, 2007