Definitions for southeaster

southeaster south·east·er

Spelling: [south-ee-ster; Nautical sou-ee-ster]
IPA: /ˌsaʊθˈi stər; Nautical ˌsaʊˈi stər/

Southeaster is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 924 anagrams from letters in southeaster (aeehorssttu).

Definitions for southeaster

noun

  1. a wind or storm from the southeast.

Origin of southeaster

First recorded in 1830-40; southeast + -er1

Examples for southeaster

That had poured itself out and given place to a southeaster.

Meantime the southeaster, dead ahead and blowing harder every minute, was sending its seas further and further aft.

When a southeaster blows the breakers beat with terrific force against the docks.

But before it came a change of wind; preceding which, as the southeaster died, there were a few moments of calm.

He had an ugly trip down the coast: lost his deck load and three men overboard in a southeaster off Nantucket Shoals.

Inside another hour there was no doubt that we were in for a southeaster.

Many a time had Captain Bean weathered Hatteras in a southeaster, but never had he met such a storm of feminine fury as this.

Perhaps it is wrong of us to curse this wind, for on board the Fram they are rejoicing that a southeaster has at last sprung up.

The southeaster sends endless battalions of waves rolling up there when it blows.

As this small bit of land is low-lying, more than once when a southeaster has raged, the tiny isle has become entirely submerged.

Word Value for southeaster
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