Definition of "west by south" []

• The direction or point on the mariner's compass halfway between due west and west-southwest, or 101°15ʹ west of due north. (noun)
• Toward or from west by south. (adverb)

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• "The second village lay west by south of Easey, but it could not be reached by car by any very direct route, and Laura, who had to drive twenty-two miles in order to arrive once more on the circumference of her nine-mile circle, had been right in believing that it would not be possible to have walked to Newcombe Soulbury from the Nine Stones."