west by north
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noun
adjective
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Course west by north 79 miles; longitude made 14 degrees 28 minutes west.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
And then—'full speed ahead' and west by north, straight for the Malta channel.
From Fair Margaret A Portrait by Horace T. Carpenter
Paul wrote that we were to steer west by north, and that if we stood on under easy sail for half a glass, we should just fetch Paradise Row.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
You are looking west by north, straight towards the sun, and nearly straight towards the wind.
From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by John Ruskin
This line leads straight west by north from the Mississippi river far into western Montana, where it strikes a narrow but deep mountain stream, which it crosses.
From The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn
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