1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. x. 38/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I We returned eastwards backe againe vnto the point of Ramshed, where we found to the number of six Ilets of one sort and other, whereof the first greatest and most southwesterlie [1577 easterly], is named the Wauay.

1600 J. Pory in tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. To Rdr. We haue brought our whole descriptions to an end vpon the most southwesterly parts of Barbarie.

1793 B. Edwards Hist. Brit. Colonies W. Indies I. ii. i. 120 He determined..on another voyage to Cuba, by a south-westerly course.

1833 J. Davidson Brit. & Rom. Remains Axminster 73 That branch of the Fosse-way which, striking off at Watergrove, advances in a south-westerly direction.

1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 59 A south-westerly direction.

1960 Mariner's Mirror 56 219 When the south-westerly gales came sweeping down on the coast carrying the rain almost horizontally the Appledorian working outside was soon ‘flaytin wet’.

1972 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 271 143 The western neovolcanic zone in Iceland runs in a southwesterly direction from the Langjokull ice sheet to the Hengill area and thence in an échelon fashion to Cape Reykjanes.

2009 Sunday Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Mar. 4 We cycled along 12km of the coastline to the Cape of Good Hope—the most southwesterly point of Africa.

1875 Symons's Monthly Meteorol. Mag. Dec. 175 The South-westerlies were most common in mid-winter and mid-summer.

1916 Rudder Sept. 403/2 There was a flat calm until half-past three in the afternoon, when a light Southwesterly came and the committee sent the fleet away.

1967 Geogr. Jrnl. 133 538 The surface discontinuity between Saharan north-easterlies and the monsoonal south-westerlies from the Atlantic.

2007 A. Dalton Alone against Arctic vii. 132 A southwesterly was blowing, piling the waves on the beach in coils of dirty brown and white.

1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar xxix. 212 The winde sitting southerly, and southwesterly, conspired at this time with Nero.

1767 J. C. Huxham tr. J. Huxham Observ. Air & Epidemic Dis. II. 223 From this Time there was frequently Rain to the very End, it blowing southwesterly from the 26th to the 31st.

1879 Nature 7 Aug. 353/2 When the National left ground, the wind was blowing south-westerly.

1918 M. V. O' Shea et al. World Bk. II. 1356/2 The wet chinook, a moist, warm wind blowing southwesterly on the pacific coast of Oregon and Washington, is often confused with the dry chinook.

2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex i. 55 It begins by blowing southwesterly, that is, away from the Turkish heights and toward the harbor.

1625 Keeling's Iournall 3rd Voy. to E. India in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iii. vi. 191 We anchored..about one in the afternoone, the two Ilands and breach bearing South Westerly, a mile from vs.

?1697 G. Keith Suppl. to Late Treat. Ess. for Discov. New Geom. Probl. 6 B is distant from A 100 Leagues South-Westerly.

1724 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compl. Tutor iii. ii. 267 A Ship sails within 5 or 6 Points of the Meridian South-westerly.

1768 T. Smollett Present State All Nations II. 41 It [sc. the road] proceeds south-westerly across the island to Fort-Augustus.

1792 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 50 These mountains extend north-easterly and south-westerly.

1883 American 7 168 The party now headed southwesterly for the Siberian coast.

1912 Mazama Oct. 37 It was splendid climbing for a long distance, going southwesterly up over the snow fields and bare, rocky slopes between Eliot and Coe Glaciers.

1952 Sci. News Let. 12 Apr. 234/2 The East Greenland current is an overflow from the polar basin, going southwesterly along the east coast of Greenland to the land's tip.

2004 San Francisco (Lonely Planet) 98 This zone runs in an arching swathe southwesterly from the tranquility of Peace Plaza.