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westerly

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westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

  1. Facing the west; directed towards the west.
    Synonyms: westward, westly, ponent
    Antonyms: easterly, eastward
    a westerly course or voyage
    • 2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13:
      Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.
  2. Located towards or in the west.
    Synonyms: western, westly, ponent
    Antonyms: easterly, eastward, eastern
    the westerly side of a lake
    • 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:
      The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
  3. (of wind) Coming from the west.
    Synonyms: westly, ponent, eastward
    Antonyms: easterly, westward
    a westerly wind
    • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
      Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
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westerly (comparative more westerly, superlative most westerly)

  1. Towards the west.
    Synonym: westward

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Used by land surveyors when they do not want to or cannot say specifically "west".

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westerly (plural westerlies)

  1. A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
      A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.

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