northwester
IPA: nɔrθwˈɛstɝ
noun
- A strong wind blowing from the northwest.
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Examples of "northwester" in Sentences
- His engine played out and he got blown off by a northwester.
- Cobwebs in the rigging mean a northwester in the near future.
- By the second day of the northwester, Sheldon was in collapse from his fever.
- The northwest is the direction identified with the strong wind known as the northwester.
- A northwester was coming up, and after his experience on the eve of Plassey, Desmond knew what that meant.
- The visa free northwester African country is now the favorite destination for illegal immigrants from the Philippines.
- Hurricane warnings are out from Florida City and up through St. Augustine and Lake Okeechobee, as well, and the northwester Bahamas.
- -- Bridget becomes as a mighty wind and peels off the immeasurable table-cloth as a northwester strips off the leafy damask from the autumn woods.
- I think and I'm hoping that I'm right here that the northeaster, northwester quadrant, which we'll be in and where Mobile is, we'll quickly get a north wind, which will push the water out to sea as opposed to pulling it in.
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