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Northwestward

noun
1.
The compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees.  Synonyms: nor'-west, northwest, NW.






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"Northwestward" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, there came to the pond an enemy of whose powers they had never had experience. Wandering down from northwestward, under the impulse of one of those migratory whims which sometimes give the lie to statistics and tradition, came a sinister, dark, slow-moving beast whose savage and crafty eyes took on a sudden flame when they detected the white mound ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... of the English, had lately had his home. Two or three hundred yards above the spot where it now stood was the mouth of Turtle Creek—the "Tulpewi Sipu" of the Lenape—which, flowing in a southwestwardly course to the Monongahela, that here has a northwestward direction, embraces, in an obtuse angle of about one hundred twenty-five degrees, the very spot where the brunt of the battle was ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... northwestward, in a saddle similar to that last described, and east of the crown of a hill, are the remains of a single room, nearly square and perhaps 10 feet long. These single rooms and small cluster remains are unusual in this region, and ...
— Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff

... mile Evan led us into the hills northwestward, and far beyond where I had yet been. I cannot tell how far it was altogether, for the way was winding, but I lost sight of all landmarks that I knew, and ever the bare hills grew barer and yet more wild, and I could understand that there were ...
— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler



Words linked to "Northwestward" :   compass point, nor'-west, NW, point, north, northwestwardly



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