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[ eest-werd-lee ] / ˈist wərd li /
adjectivehaving an eastward direction or situation. coming from the east: an eastwardly wind. adverbtoward the east. from the east. Origin of eastwardlyFirst recorded in 1660–70; eastward + -ly Words nearby eastwardlyEast Suffolk, East Sussex, East Timor, East Timorese, eastward, eastwardly, eastwards, East-West, Eastwood, easy, easy as pie Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for eastwardlyIn a short time we discovered land at the distance of twenty or thirty miles, in an eastwardly direction. A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute|Horace Holden In 1873 he located a hundred miles of the road from Topolobampo eastwardly, and two years ago the construction commenced. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887|Various Its general course, so far as he could learn, was eastwardly, and was therefore favorable to him. Camp-fire and Wigwam|Edward Sylvester Ellis Although the eastwardly current be not commonly found at the surface in Bass' Strait, it is not lost. A Voyage to Terra Australis|Matthew Flinders
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