northeast by east

American  

noun

Navigation, Surveying.

1. a point on the compass 11°15′ east of northeast. NEbE

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northeast by east British  

noun

1. one point on the compass east of northeast, 56° 15′ clockwise from north

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adjective

1. in, from, or towards this direction

Example Sentences

Afterward we sailed northeast by east, passing many islands on the way.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Have the wind steady at northeast by east.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings

Fortunately the course, shifting to northeast by east, presently took them out of the swinging trough of the sea.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph

From north to east, eight points, are thus named: North; north by east; north-northeast; northeast by north; northeast; northeast by east; east-northeast; east by north; East.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

We stood off on the same course, when we saw this brig,—I think steering northeast by east.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.