norther
/ˈnɔː(ɹ)θə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.
verb
To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
adj
comparative form of north: more north; northern
Example Sentences
- "Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther.""
- "She lay well secured even against a ‘Norther’. Bond estimated there would be about twenty feet of water below her keel."
- "Keep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther."
- "The hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency."
- "But from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy."
- "One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ..."
Etymology
From north + -er.