Definition of "southeaster" []

• A storm or gale blowing from the southeast. (noun)

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• "They are considered vulnerable because loss of their habitat in southeaster Kenya and eastern Tanzania."
• "He come home light and anchored off the bar, just as a southeaster was a-comin 'on."
• "Sometimes a "southeaster" blows up from the Japan Current, or Black Stream, as the Japanese call the warm, dark-blue waters that pour out of the China Sea."