east-south-eastwardadv.n.adj.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. xxxiii. 386 Sixe miles East Southeastward from these Islandes, lyeth the Island of Tonquian.

1675 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XIV. 166 From y^e said white Oake tree to turn & Range East South Eastward to a Rock with some stones layd upon it.

1805 J. Horsburgh Mem. Navigation Straits of Malacca & Sincapour v. 30 The ship Dart..struck on the reef east-south-eastward from Middle Island.

1894 J. W. Moore Meteorol. Pract. & Appl. xxvi. 340 The isotherm..passes east-south-eastward by the Land's End in Cornwall to Jersey.

1956 Imago Mundi 13 31/2 Boca de Conil, the western entrance to Laguna de Yalahau, situated about 15 nautical miles east-south-eastward of Monte de Cuyo.

2004 J. G. Butcher Closing of Frontiers vi. 225 A current flowing east-southeastward causes strong upswelling along the north coast of New Guinea.

1744 Claridge's Shepherd of Banbury's Rules (new ed.) 59 Cape Mount or Cape Miserada, which is about eighteen Leagues to the East South Eastward thereof.

1822 T. Arnold Amer. Pract. Lunarian & Seaman's Guide 233 Tornadoes may be expected; these are hard squalls from east and east southeastward.

1876 G. M. Totten & S. Schroeder Coasts & Ports Bay of Biscay xi. 426 When the two lights on the Pointe du Raz come in line, steer to the east-southeastward until Tevennec light shows red again.

1970 E. W. R. Lumby Policy & Operations in Mediterranean, 1912–14 ii. ii. 141 Breslau soon disappeared to the east-south-eastward.

1882 F. H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer Scotl. I. 56/2 It here has an east-south-eastward course.

1916 Pacific Islands Pilot II. vii. 281 The barometer..showing highest for east-southeastward winds, and lowest for those from the northwestward.

2006 L. Sagnotti in N. Pinter et al. Adria Microplate 83 This belt developed since the Middle Miocene largely in response to the east-southeastward retreat of a regional subduction zone.