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/ˈistərli/ Listen

adjective

Easterly adj.

Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.

adverb

Easterly adv. Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

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Etymology of 'Easterly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Easterly" Quotes from Famous Books

... think for yourselves, which always makes everything go wrong. The only thing you have to think about at all is any sudden change of weather. If a gale from the east sets in, you both run north, and I come after you. But there will not be any easterly gale for the present week, to my belief; although I am not quite sure ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... after one, the day clouded over, and a strong north-easterly wind drove sudden showers of sleet in the faces of the Highland army. They were the first to open fire, but their guns were small, and the firing ill-directed; the balls went over the heads of the enemy and did little harm. Then the great guns on the other side poured out the return ...

— The Red True Story Book • Various

... task which was left to the superintendence of Tom Hardy, while Smellie and I had a scramble through the gun-galleries and to the telegraph-station at the summit of the Rock; and just as the sunset-gun boomed out on the evening air we weighed and stood out of the bay, with a light north-easterly breeze, passing ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... men were growing grizzled with advancing years the coble which belonged to them had gone away from the fishing-ground one black night, before a strong north-easterly gale: she shot between the Great Farne Island and the Bird's Rock. The tide was going like a millrace, and the solemn roar of the vast stream made very terrible music in the dark. The men might have got into their own haven by ...

— The Romance of the Coast • James Runciman

... fresh easterly, but the weather pretty good; and as the winds had continued in the points between NE. and SE. a long time, we missed several opportunities of sending them to France; for we met several ships bound to Europe, whereof two were French, from St. Christopher's, ...

— The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe

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