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a1605 J. Davis in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. vi. 445 In these parts, betweene the Tropickes I meane, it [sc. the variation] keepeth no method in Easting or Westing, as it doth without them.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xii. 384 The Westing we should gain in going to California would make amends for what we should lose.

a1769 G. Robertson Discov. Tahiti (1948) 238 Endeavour to get a sufficient Westing, before you Attempt to run to the Northward.

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 579 After leaving Ascension we made a good deal of westing.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 369 A decrease of the variation of the compass, tends to give them more westing than they calculate upon.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xviii. 330 The westing we were making brought us among people who are frequently visited by the Mambari, as slave-dealers.

1867 Q. Rev. July 199 The westing made by the river between its source and its mouth would be..greater than the southing.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 649/1 It is to this cause that the easting and westing of the great atmospheric currents are to be attributed.

1953 D. L. Morgan Jedediah Smith iv. 85 His party needed all the westing it could get; even a couple of miles a day added up.

1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute ii. 59 While the Surprise was making her westing Jack spent more in barrels of powder than ever he would have made in prize-money.