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West by south   /wɛst baɪ saʊθ/   Listen
West by south

noun
1.
The compass point that is one point south of due west.  Synonym: WbS.






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"West by south" Quotes from Famous Books



... a southwesterly course until, at the end of sixty-four days, we discovered land, which, on many accounts, we concluded to be Terra Firma. We coasted this land about eight hundred leagues, in a direction west by south. It was well inhabited, and I noticed many remarkable things, which ...
— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober

... "West by south-west, almost dead," said the captain; and I heard it agreed between them that the second cruiser of the American fleet should start at once in pursuit, while the iron-clads should accompany us to New York, so making a ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

... supposed was its end. Here I was again baffled by a narrow channel not ten yards wide. It might as well have been half a mile, for all the chance I had of crossing it. The trend of the lake was north-west by south-east, and I was now at the north-west end, but stopped, as I say, by a narrow channel connecting evidently with another lake further to ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... must go west by south, and he made his way over difficult country, crossing ravines, climbing hills, and picking his path now and then through soft ground, the most exhausting labor of all. The sun poured down upon him and his uniform dried fast. He had just ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... stunted acacias were growing; their tops had been bent by the steady trade-wind, in a singular manner—some of them even at right angles to their trunks. The direction of the branches was exactly north-east by north, and south-west by south, and these natural vanes must indicate the prevailing direction of the force of the trade-wind. The travelling had made so little impression on the barren soil, that we here missed our track, and took ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "West by south" :   compass point, point



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