Meaning

A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north..

Definitions by Sense

1. A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.
2. To move or go toward the north.
3. (of wind) To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) comparative form of north: more north; northern

Example Sentences

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.

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.

One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...

The map maintained that the mountains were those along whose far flank I'd northered on foot, and one molar-tooth peak certainly looked like Squaretop.

"In that direction, we have a southbound breeze all the way to the ground." […] The northering sun was peeking under the curve of the balloon. “We're coming at them from out of the sun.”

We follow Waverley in the reverse progress of his own private eastering, and (the eastering here technically a northering) we make our way through […]

Word Forms

• northers
• northering
• northered

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Use norther when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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