| 单词 | to the south-westward |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto the south-westward (of) The point of the horizon midway between south and west; the south-west. to the south-westward (of) : in a south-west direction (from). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > South-west > [noun] south-westOE south-westa1450 southwestward1532 south-westwards1578 1532 Chaucer's Treat. Astrolabe in Wks. G. Chaucer f. ccciii/2 Aspye diligently whan this same fyrste starre passeth any thynge to the southwestwarde. 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 19 To the South-westward of these Prouinces..towards the high land, there bee many others. 1745 Theatre of Present War in Netherlands 35 Menin..stands upon the same River Lys, five Miles to the South-Westward of Courtray. 1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 392 When the ship's head was to the Southwestward. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous i, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 215 Coming from the south-westward. 1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. vi. 411 [The currents] often run with great velocity to the south-westward. 1916 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 13 166 These formations were tilted to the southwestward and partly truncated in late Mississippian time. 1932 Bull. National Res. Council No. 89 207 A few such boulders had previously been found in the vicinity of Cape Girardeau, but the newly-found ones lie much farther to the southwestward. 2002 H. C. Rountree in R. Ethridge & C. Hudson Transformation of Southeastern Indians iv. 65 In the early 1670s came several famous English expeditions to the southwestward. < as lemmas |
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