north-westwardadv.adj.n.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 71 A place foure score myle out of York norþwestward [?a1475 anon. tr.: at the northe weste of hit; L. ad zephyrum borealem].

1555 in R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353^v We met with the wynd at northeast, and so we ranne northwestwarde.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 606 From the Citie, Northwestward, there Shooteth out a languet of land, or promontorie of the maine-land into the sea.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 402 Which he makes run Northwestward from Coventry.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 70 North-Westward of Costantina..there is a Mountain.

1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 134 The base of verification in Romney Marsh makes with the meridian of the pipe at High Nook an angle of 54° 28′ 56″½ north-westward.

1845 Southern Q. Rev. July 205 There is on the North a mountain ridge running away North-Westward.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career I. viii. 119 The faint red Doge's palace was like the fading of another sunset north-westward of the glory along the hills.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 688/2 The Alleghany Plateau..is an eroded mass of sedimentary rock sloping north-westward to the Prairie and Lake Plains.

1988 Nature 5 May 56/2 From about February to May..Amazon water flows northwestward towards the Caribbean Sea.

1703 D. Curtes Deed 1 Sept. in L. B. Chapman York Deeds (1892) VII. f. 4 A certain piece of Salt Marish..is bounded on y^e Northwestward Side by y^e land & Marsh that was formerly accounted Maj^r John Davises.

1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 335 Our course, on approaching the American coast, became north-westward.

1870 Daily News 20 Dec. The north-westward movement of Chanzy brought him within striking distance of the German Corps at Chartres.

1889 Science 31 May 427/2 The third member of the Cordillera in British Columbia..pursues a direct north-westward course for over 900 miles.

1920 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 10 107 The return of the river to the northwestward course..is probably to be explained by the easier trenching of the terrace deposits in that direction.

1987 Nature 10 Dec. 534/1 The continuation of sub-surface northwestward flow from Vitiaz Strait along the coast of PNG.

1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 9 The noise and shakes of the earthquake..seemed..to come from the north-westward, and to go off south-easterly.

1789 in W. S. Seton-Karr & H. D. Sandeman Select. Calcutta Gaz. (1865) II. 218 We understand the Cossyahs, who inhabit the hills to the north-westward of Sylhet, have committed some very daring acts of violence.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 128 To the northwestward of Hudson's Bay is an extensive chain of lakes.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 76 After doubling Cape Farewell, they stood to the north-westward.

1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 45 Along a broken stony road, with several high and long hills, and very awkward bridges in the valleys, to the northwestward of the village.

1892 Daily News 27 Apr. 3/5 Wind was light..from the north-westward in the west of France.

1901 Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 3/5 He then swept an area of half a mile from the wreck buoy to the north-westward.

1930 J. Masefield Wanderer of Liverpool 20 So went the Wanderer round..to emerge and go galloping on Roaring, high streaming, full-flooded, to head to north-westward.