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north-north-east, adv. etc.
[= Du. noordnoordoost, G. and Sw. nordnordost; also F. nord-nord-est, It. nortnortest, Sp. and Pg. nornordeste.]
In the direction lying midway between north and north-east. Also as n. and adj. (cf. north-east).
14..Sailing Directions (Hakluyt) 13 Ye must rere at a North north est moone. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 66 The northnortheaste wynde roughely tossed the shyppes. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 248 It standeth North North-east and by East. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. v. 134 They divide amongst them the rest of the winds,..as North-northweast, North-northeast. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2708/3 The Wind being at North-North-East. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 304 The coast running from port St. Julian north-north-east. 1849J. D. Dana Geol. ix. (1850) 468 The main mountain range has in general a northeast to north-northeast course. 1870Lowell Study Wind. Ser. i. Good Wd. for Winter, The vast blur of a north-north-east snow storm. |