Sou'wester
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sou'wester is a noun meaning Alternative form of southwester (“wind”).
Meaning
Alternative form of southwester (“wind”).
More Meanings
- Alternative form of southwester (“waterproof hat”).
Example Sentences
Joe Crowe was perched in the driving-seat, clad in oil-skins and sou'-wester, crouched in the rain, clutching two iron buckets.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
As he sat there with a sou'wester down over his ears, in a long pilot coat, his figure appeared in the misty morning air to assume quite supernatural proportions, and you might almost imagine that you had one of the old Vikings before you.
Word Forms
- sou'westers
Related Words
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