nor'wester

English

Noun

nor'wester (plural nor'westers)

1. Alternative form of northwester
   • 1974 August, P.J. Lamb, “Nor'wester's potential föhn influence on Canterbury Plains' (New Zealand) surface heat exchanges”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 17, number 3:

     For nor'west diurnal periods of similar extraterrestrial irradiance (EI), the nor'wester's potential influence tends to increase with the reduction of Q_r* by cloudiness.

   • 2011, Mary Anne Barker, Station Life in New Zealand, →ISBN, page 49:

     However, I am assured that I have not yet seen either a “howling nor'-wester,” nor its exact antithesis, “ a sutherly buster.”

   • 2011, Christopher White, Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oysterman, →ISBN, page 1:

     The pattern is familiar: A nor'wester shuttles in a cold front from the Canadian plains and thoughts of spring are pirated off to sea.

   • 2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:

     A place glimpsed as square fragments from the windows of a Saab 340 as it bucked in on a pesky nor'wester.