Definition of "nor'-west" [nor'-west]

• Northwest (noun)

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• "That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!"
• "So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters — which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me."
• "So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters - which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me."