south-southeastadj.adv.n.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. ii. 571 Þerof comeþ a wynde þat hatte Subsolanus, þe souþ souþest wynd.

1572 J. Sadler tr. Vegetius Foure Bks. Martiall Policye iv. xxxviii. f. 63 Vnto this is ioyned on the right syde the South southeast wind.

1634 L. Foxe North-west Fox 49 The South-south-East wind blew very hard, with fog and raine, his course West.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. xv. 364 The South Southeast wind is moist and warm.

1756 P. Francis tr. Horace Poet. Transl. Wks. (ed. 6) I. 38 Leuconotus, the South South-East Wind.

1859 Rep. Commissioners Harbours of Refuge 285 in Parl. Papers X. With a strong flood tide and a south-south-east gale, not one ship in a hundred would live in the Pentland Firth.

1893 Times 8 July 14/2 The wind had southerned a little..and was about south-south-east.

1916 Pacific Islands Pilot I. i. 46 That opening causes the south-southeast wind on the west coast to become a very fresh southwest wind.

1950 Times 7 Aug. 5/7 Glorious weather, with a light south-south-east breeze.

2008 G. E. Buker Metal Life Car i. 17 Captain Moses, being windward of a south-southeast gale, worked his lifeboat three hundred miles in a heavy sea before reaching land.

?1560 tr. P. Garcie Rutter of See sig. f.i^v Loke you seke Cales hauen, at south southeast mone.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ix. f. 24^v/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I As for the water or creke that runneth into the south southeast part, it is but a little thing of halfe a myle vp into the land.

1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes v. 175 I finde it to be the North norwest, and South southeast Rumbe.

1683 J. Forbes Mariner's Everlasting Almanack (ed. 2) vi. 12 The 7 day of the Moon at Yarmouth where a South-South East Moon maketh full-Sea.

1716 Worlidge's Compl. Syst. Husbandry & Gardening 460 The Wind being exactly in the South South-East Point, it Rains to day.

1799 tr. J. F. G. de la Perouse Voy. Round World I. 58 If we take our departure from the coast of Brasil in the 32°, to cut the parallel of 52° by a south-south-east course.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall i. 5 About eight miles in a..south-south-east direction.

1898 A. Wedderburn Wedderburn Bk. II. 500 There is an entry of the marriage of a servant to Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, advocate, in south south-east parish.

1921 Lit. Digest 8 Oct. 36/2 The British fought on a course curving to the southeast, and then on a south-southeast course.

1976 C. A. King Northern Eng. vi. 152 The coast of Northumberland and Durham runs in a fairly straight north-north-west to south-south-east direction with only relatively minor indentations.

2001 A. B. Valsangkar in R. S. Gupta & E. Desa Indian Ocean II. xvii. 635 The Red Sea extends for approximately 2000 km, along a north-northwest to south-southeast direction.

?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 11 Fro Tilmouth to Fenyn Illonde the cours is North northwest and South South est.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xciii. 165/2 We held our course south south East.

1615 J. Taylor Faire & Fowle Weather sig. B2^v Steere South-South-East there.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 192 A little island, which bare off us south-south-east some four leagues.

1709 J. Stevens tr. P. de Cieza Seventeen Years Trav. iv. 12 At Punta de Aguja the Coast turns South South East to the Port of Casma.

1780 W. Lothian Hist. United Provinces Netherlands iii. 217 Instead of going, as they had believed, south or south-south-east,..they found, that the currents had forced them to the north.

1825 Amer. Missionary Reg. Mar. 70/2 Hightower,..80 miles south-southeast of Brainerd.

1931 Geogr. Jrnl. 77 43 (caption) Looking south-south-east from the rock: village of Gazar Khan in the foreground.

1974 H. S. Carlson Nevada Place Names 66/1 Sixty-six miles south-southeast of Winnemucca, in Pershing County.

2001 F. Barstad Hiking Hells Canyon xxix. 148 Follow the roadbed south-southeast to a tiny pond and another spring.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 350^v And to the south southeaste [lay] a lowe longe lande.

1603 G. Bowes Let. 22 Dec. in Cal. MSS Marquis of Salisbury (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1930) (modernized text) XV. 333 The rocks..hold their course in ascent to the south south east.

1669 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. Ambassadors (ed. 2) I. iv. 139 We set sail with a favourable Wind, taking our course to the South-South-east.

a1731 D. Defoe New Voy. round World (1787) III. 20 [The valley] went winding away..to the South East, and so to South South East.

1761 T. Jefferys Descr. Maritime Parts France 237/1 There is absolute security in it from winds at north, north west, west, south west, south, and south south east.

1806 F. Depons Trav. in Parts of S. Amer. 26 From cape Codera the coast extends towards the south-southeast.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 216/2 One principal street, running from south-south-east to north-north-west.

1914 Times 1 Aug. 12/3 There was a splendid breeze from south-south-east.

1973 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 57 1835/1 The dominant wave approach direction, responsible for littoral drift towards the south-southeast, is from the west.

2002 R. Bradley Past in Prehist. Societies iii. 76 In four cases the tallest monolith is towards the south-east or south-south-east.