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North-northwest   /nɔrθ-nˌɔrθwˈɛst/   Listen
North-northwest

adverb
1.
To, toward, or in the north-northwest.  Synonym: nor'-nor'-west.






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"North-northwest" Quotes from Famous Books



... several bays to Wykakoe about twenty miles, and continuing so to Takany, sixteen miles. From Takany to Burlington, it runs again more easterly and east-northeast twenty miles, thence due east six miles, where there is a round bay turning north to north-northwest to the falls four miles, so that from the falls to the sea coast it is about eighty English miles, or twenty Dutch miles, from Newcastle each way. It has numerous fine navigable creeks on both sides of it, which are like small rivers running far inland, but how ...
— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts



Words linked to "North-northwest" :   nor'-nor'-west



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