southwester

IPA: saʊθwˈɛstɝ

A strong wind blowing from the southwest.
(more often sou'wester) A waterproof hat, often of oilskin and with a long brim at the back covering the neck, designed to repel wind and rain.
(more often sou'wester) A long raincoat, often worn at sea.

Examples of "southwester" in Sentences

Lee County, Florida is in the southwester, part of the state.
A southwester, which is usually pronounced and sometimes spelled
Meanwhile, we had a cold November followed by one chinook/southwester/easterly after another.
He was like a grampus when he set his teeth, and a southwester couldn't blow harder if he chose.
In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper southwester and one ripsnorting southeaster.
Amyas could not sail the next day, or the day after; for the southwester freshened, and blew three parts of a gale dead into the bay.
Except for one wild southwester that broke the pin in the mizzen topsail yard and sent it into the rigging, all signs seemed in their favor.
They rounded Cape St. John expecting a deadly southwester, but found instead as fine a day as anyone could wish, clear and crisp like October in New England.
Based on our experiences in the first sounding, the necessary preparations were taken to enable the team to reach an ever greater depth in the second sounding just outside the southwester corner pillar of frigidarium 1.
Then we ran down the Illyrian coast and, with oars at full speed, sail bellying with a powerful southwester, rounded the Italian peninsula with a strong wind for Sicilia and the Tyrrhenian Sea, where we ran into a small flotilla of black-sailed ships expectantly lying in wait for us.