north-eastwardadv.n.adj.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fviij^v Northeastwarde to the citie of Lop.

1619 W. P. Relation of Wonderfull Voiage 19 We..found our compasse to varrie Northeastward 12 degrees.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xviii. 259 North-eastward, it [sc. the kingdom] roved over the Principalities of Antioch and Edessa.

1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 199 The said Captain Vries then was order'd..to steer his course North-East-ward, with the variable winds.

1703 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) V. 95 From the said black oake tree to Range away northeastward to a stake.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 162 The Captain having been at Tonquin was in his return to England driven Northeastward to the Latitude of 44 Degrees, and of Longitude 143.

1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 531 The new point on the Keep is 6½ feet north-eastward from the old one.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. x. 147 We paced easily forward, by a road which conducted us north-eastward from the town.

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) i. 19 This chain extends northeastward from Hawaii.

1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 513/1 The sand and lava..extend northeastward from the Dalles.

1903 Science 17 July 91/2 During the last two days of the month another storm moved northeastward through the Ohio valley.

1951 Newfoundland & Labrador Pilot 1 134 Duck Road shoal, about 4 cables north-eastward of Eastern head and Anchor Cove Sunkers.

1995 Inside Fort Collins (Colorado) 2 Feb. 1/1 The red dirt road winds northeastward, topping occasional rises and threading between plateaus.

1613 W. Adams Let. 1 Dec. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 111 Yedzo..is a promentary that striketh w'th a great bytt or elbo from the cost of Corea and so trenteth againe to the north-estward.

1789 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 94 The principal vein..has a slight hade to the north-eastward.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 13 A youth, coming from the north-eastward, approached the ford of a small river.

1850 M. H. Perley Rep. New Brunswick (1852) 36 About four miles to the northeastward of Mr. Wilson's farm, and near to Point Miscou, are two fishing ‘rooms’.

1892 Daily News 27 Apr. 3/5 Wind was..from the northward or north-eastward.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf vi. 54 Wolf Larsen patrolled the poop constantly, his eyes ever searching the sea to the northeastward, from which direction the great trade-wind must blow.

1917 J. Muir Cruise of Corwin xv Not the slightest trace..could we find along the river..or on the bluff to the northeastward..of any human inhabitant.

1982 R. F. Burgess & C. J. Clausen Florida's Golden Galleons The French frigate Grifón..was sailing..far to the northeastward at the time of the disaster.

1619 W. P. Relation of Wonderfull Voiage 20 We..were vnder 47 degrees 25 minutes, and 16 degrees northeastward variation of the compasse.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 60 The king's-arms [are] on the north-eastward, and the arms of London on the south-eastward pillar.

1863 J. S. Hittell Resources of California 17 The Mojave..after running about one hundred miles in a northeastward direction, sinks into the sand.

1894 Proc. Royal Soc. 56 148 In a north-eastward direction.

1923 Evolution 13 288/1 The relative frequency of pale wolves increases in a northeastward direction.

1991 A. Wood Hist. Siberia v. 70 The Russian conquest of northern Eurasia, which developed from the north-eastward territorial expansion of Novgorod.