| 单词 |
north-north-west |
| 释义 |
north-north-west, adv. etc.
[= Du. noordnoordwest, G. nordnordwest (Sw. -vest); also F. nord-nord-ouest, Sp. nornorueste.]
In the direction lying midway between north and north-west. Also as n. and adj.
c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 117 As wisly as I sawe the northe northe west When I beganne my sweuene for to write. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. xv. (Bodl. MS.), Þis londe haþ in þe norþe norþewest side þe see Occian. Ibid. xxvii, Toward norþe norþeweste. 14..Sailing Directions (Hakluyt) 11 The cours is North northwest and South South est. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 396, I am but mad North, North-West: when the Winde is Southerly, I know a Hawke from a Handsaw. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 259 The contrary wind forc'd us to laveering to the North-north-west. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 59 It was on the N.N.W. Side of the Hill. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xvii, Twenty-three miles north north-west. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 65 A line drawn through its center would run north-northwest and south-southeast.
Hence north-north-westward adv.
1784Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 203 From about 45° of elevation north-north-westward. |
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