norther
Collocations
2VERB + NORTHER
followed, stream
PREP.
with
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noun
A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.
Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther."
Keep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther.
verb
To move or go toward the north.
The hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency.
But from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy.
To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.
Att noone it came S. afterwardes westerly, and after sunnesett it northered, and blew a verie stiffe gale; some raine.
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5Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther."
WiktionaryKeep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther.
WiktionaryThe hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency.
WiktionaryBut from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy.
WiktionaryOne could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...
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