southwardly

[ south-werd-lee; Nautical suhth-erd-lee ]

adjective

1. toward or from the south.

Word History and Origins

Origin of southwardly¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; southward + -ly

Example Sentences

We were an hour in crossing the lake southwardly from this point, which would give a mean rate of five miles.

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It lies a little above the bay where the river bends and runs south from there, so that you can see down the river southwardly.

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We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all.

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We here again sounded, and found a current setting still southwardly, and at the rate of three quarters of a mile per hour.

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Upon sounding with two hundred fathoms, we here found a current setting southwardly at the rate of half a mile per hour.

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