easterly
IPA: ˈistɝɫi
noun
- (meteorology) Any persistent wind from the east (usually applied to broad currents or belts of easterly winds).
- A surname.
adjective
- Facing the east; directed towards the east.
- Located towards or in the east.
- Coming from the east.
adverb
- In an eastward direction or position; towards the east.
- From the east.
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Examples of "easterly" in Sentences
- The Borneons, from being so harassed by these pirates, call the easterly wind 'the pirate wind.'
- I've come to the most easterly point in North America in the hope of having an up close and personal experience with whales.
- In intricate black-and-white the map revealed Britain's south-easterly corner as a mesh of bridleways, brooks and field boundaries.
- Weather disturbances in the trade winds, known as easterly waves, are another source of cloud development and precipitation in the tropics.
- Also, the wind anomaly shown by the arrows in the western area is easterly, which is consistent with development of a La Nina, if the wind persists.
- That's what I done, and if you'll search them records you'll find the word 'easterly' standin 'cool and ca'm in every place where it ought to be ....
- We re-saddled our horses, and searched those nearest, that is to say easterly; but no water was found, nor any place that could hold it for an hour after it fell from the sky.
- This island, the most easterly of the Caribbean, has a remarkable history stretching back, on the one hand, to the Amero-Indians of 4,000BC and on the other to the apex of British imperialism.
- And in Africa, "The easterly winds that are supposed to bring moisture into East Africa were reduced," says meteorologist Wassila Thiaw, head of the Africa desk at the U.S. National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center.
- That the country did not become known through Verrazzano is evident from the letter, in which it is stated that he ran along the entire coast, from the harbor to which they remained fifteen days, one hundred and fifty leagues easterly, that is from Cape Cod to the
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