nor-nor-eastn.adj.adv.

1595 J. Davis Seamans Secrets i. sig. B3^v Nor noreast raiseth a degree in sayling 21. leages and two miles.

a1632 J. Webster & W. Rowley Cure for Cuckold (1661) iv. i The Winds themselves do copulate, and bring forth issue... By meeting they have engendred Nor-East, Sou-East... Of them Were begotten Nor-Nor-East, Nor-Nor-West, Sou-Sou-East [etc.].

1680 Don Tomazo 216 Don Tomazo and his Crew divided the Spoil, and being assisted with a thumping Gale at Nore Nore-East, in a short time arriv'd in Ostend Road.

1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals vi. 82 Admiral Bluewater cannot be far from us; somewhere down here, towards north-east—or nor-nor-east.

1869 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 268/2 The wind came out of the nor'-nor'-east this morning.

1894 T. Dunn Poems 661 The wild storm wind smote hard the window-panes, Drew, pointing to the nor'-nor'east, the tips of weather-vanes.

1951 E. Linklater Laxdale Hall 271 From a point between north and north-east—opinion differed as to whether it was nor'-nor'-east or north-east by north—a drift of transparent clouds..floated.

1891 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea v ‘How is the wind?’ ‘About nor'-nor'-east, Sir.’

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Nov. 1/2 He changed his course and steered Nor'-Nor'-East.

1908 W. Carleton Driftin In 49 The ship was steerin' nor'-nor'-east; the weather hailed us fair.

1953 Philos. Rev. 62 183 Philosopher's arguments which turn on these terms are apt, sooner or later, to start to rotate idly. There is nothing to make them point north rather than nor'-nor'-east.

1984 C. H. Sisson Coll. Poems 251 So the wind changes Nor'nor'east, nor'nor'west.