Definition of "northing" []

• The difference in latitude between two positions as a result of a movement to the north. (noun)
• Progress toward the north. (noun)

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• "The captain counts it a light upon one of the headlands of the Jersey shore; and he orders the helmsman (she is sailing in the eye of an easy westerly breeze) to give her a couple of points more "northing"; and the yards and sheets are trimmed accordingly."
• "I needed thorium, and northing but thorium, and went from Shattrath to Orgrimmar to Ferales to Silithus to Un'Goro Crater."
• "The EHRC has long been considered a joke by disabled people it does northing for and dodges any real work."