east-south-eastadj.adv.n.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. iii. 573 Whanne hit [sc. the east wind] turneth into þe est southest wynde þanne he gendreþ cloudes.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. vi. f. 28^v An Eastsoutheaste wynde arose.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. xxxvi. 393/1 Wee lay driuing without sayles, with an East South-east wind in the night time.

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1657) 33 Ships may anchor in seven, eight, or nine fathoms, the Road being defended off..East-South-East winds.

1652 G. Tooke Hist. Cales Passion 12 Being thus United and running by an East South East Winde, the Flagg of Counsell was soon after hung out in the Admirals shrowds.

1757 in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace Wks. I. 332 He says this Tempest shall be caused by the East-South-East Wind.

1826 W. James Naval Hist. Great Brit. (new ed.) II. 30 He was working against a fresh east-south-east wind.

1853 B. C. Seeman Narr. Voy. H.M.S. Herald I. i. 11 Although it was the season for easterly and east-south-east winds, we had a touch from the north-northeast.

1927 R. Amundsen & L. Ellsworth First Crossing Polar Sea 271 On the land a slight east-south-east-breeze was blowing.

1967 W. Seymour Ordeal by Ambition 97 This was rendered impossible by an east-south-east gale, that drove him to seek the open sea.

2001 J. K. Wood tr. L. Magini Astron. & Cal. Anc. Rome iii. iii. 91 It is quite a surprise to find that in Rome Volturnus..is the name of an east-south-east wind with unpleasant characteristics.

?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 15 (MED) He may begyn to rere at an est southest moone for to turne.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 13^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Allegate, on the East southeast side.

a1622 W. Baffin in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) III. iv. xvii. 834 We made an East South-east way, halfe Southerly twentie foure leagues.

1760 tr. T. Pichon Genuine Lett. & Mem. Islands Cape Breton, & St. John 81 The second entrance..is formed by the west north-west point of the little isle of entrance, and that of the east south-east point of the north.

1787 Defoe's Voy. round World (new ed.) III. 110 They would go an East South East [1725 E.S.E.] course most of the way.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul 641 The next range..runs in an east-south-east direction to Punnialla.

1885 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 18 208 At the corner where it joins the east-south-east wall it has parted from it outwards.

1915 Geogr. Jrnl. 45 34 Molyneux has referred to an east-south-east line in the neighbourhood of the Zambezi-Luangwa junction.

2001 A. Tansel in D. Salehi-Isfahani Labor & Human Capital in Middle East vi. 355 Self-employment is more common in East-South-East Anatolia.

1478 W. Worcester Itineraries (Corpus Cambr. 210) (1969) 138 Eest southest de Milford havyn.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 351^v The ninth day of December we set owr course east southeast.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 11 Our course was East South-east.

1701 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 308 Such ships..shall moore West Nor-west and East Southeast.

1785 T. Cavallo Hist. & Pract. Aerostation xiv. 173 Meeting with another current, he was carried east south-east of Sunbury.

1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont iii. 186/1 It then runs east southeast about a mile.

1898 Science 14 Jan. 51/1 This lobe was divided in two parts by the Penetang peninsula,..the smaller one extending east-southeast from Matchedash Bay.

1921 R. Forbes Secret of Sahara vii. 137 We took council and..decided to march east-south-east till water and camels gave out.

1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. 10 A very large convoy on a major road, east-south-east of Dakovica, going towards Prizren.

1560 R. Coplande tr. P. Garcie Rutter of See sig. Bi ^v At the ankerage of Portlande, thee moone in the east south east full see.

1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 57 The winde..changed, first to the East by North, and then to the East south-east.

1684 P. Ayres Voy. & Adventures Capt. B. Sharp 23 We lay well along shoar, the wind at East South East, Cloudy weather.

1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. iii. v. 159 I saw a sort of sossee towards the east south east.

1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 148 A light breeze springing up at east south east, we weighed.

1821 G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. viii. 307 A range of sand hills running to a great distance to the east-south-east from our right hand.

1877 M. L. Becker There she Blows! ix. 98 In the latitude of Cape St. Augustine..with light breezes at east-south-east.

1921 Geogr. Jrnl. 57 218 To the east-south-east the stupendous massif of Gurla Mandhata towered head and shoulders above the intervening army of lesser ranges.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 7/1 The gales started on Tuesday.., backing around to gale force eight coming from east-south-east yesterday morning.