southeast by south

American  

noun

Navigation, Surveying.

1. a point on the compass 11°15′ south of southeast. SEbS

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southeast by south British  

noun

1. one point on the compass south of southeast; 146° 15′ clockwise from north

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adjective

1. in, from, or towards this direction

Example Sentences

Once, at the wheel, when the ship was heading southeast by south half-south, he had been asked the course, and answered: "South-southeast half-east, sir."

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan

No man who walks with his toes pointing southwest by south, and southeast by south, when he is going south, will ever get into France on his own feet, carrying a knapsack and a rifle.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

Nevertheless in due season the Rotge left the Greenland shore and pointed her inquiring beak southeast by south.

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

In the meantime from the north the British Grand Fleet had been closing at utmost fleet speed on a southeast by south course.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various