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North-northeast   /nɔrθ-nˌɔrθˈist/   Listen
North-northeast

adverb
1.
To, toward, or in the north-northeast.  Synonym: nor'-nor'-east.





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"North-northeast" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were exchanging letters, pregnant movements were taking place, unknown to either. The brig "Curieux," despatched to England by Nelson the night before he left Antigua, had fallen in with the allied squadrons, nine hundred miles north-northeast from Antigua, on the 19th of June—just a week after she sailed. Keeping company with them long enough to ascertain their course and approximate numbers, the captain then hastened on, anchoring in ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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... 9, was a wild day. All day long the wind blew strong from the north-northeast, increasing finally to a gale, while the thermometer hung between 18 deg. and 22 deg. below zero. All the leads that we had passed here on the upward journey were greatly widened and new ones had been formed. We struck one just north of the ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary
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