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Definition of East northeast
1. Noun. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
Definition of East northeast
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of east-northeast) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of East Northeast
Literary usage of East northeast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts, Peter Sluyter, Bartlett Burleigh James (1913)
"It became gradually more still, and at last we could sail east-northeast, and
northeast. We had sailed 72 miles. We could not take an observation. ..."
2. Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions by Peter Lund Simmonds (1852)
"... they were allowed an extra glass of grog on that day. ten days after leaving
Sandy Hook, and then sailed east-northeast, directly for Cape Comfort, ..."
3. Land Magnetic Observations: 1905/10- by Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming, Harlan Wilbur Fisk, Samuel Jackson Barnett, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1912)
"... about three-fourths mile (1.2 kilometers) east-northeast of railroad station.
The main station is near western edge of space, about 500 feet (152 ..."
4. The American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation and by Nathaniel Bowditch, George Wood Logan (1906)
"... point joined by the word by to that of the cardinal point in the direction of
which it lies: North by East, Northeast by North, Northeast by East, etc. ..."
5. The Journeys of Réné Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle: As Related by His by Isaac Joslin Cox (1905)
"... sixty to the east-northeast. We then continued our route, ascending the river
through the same places which the Sieur de la Salle had previously passed ..."
6. Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley: With the Original by John Gilmary Shea (1853)
"... sixty to the east-northeast. We then continued our route, ascending the river
through the same places which the sieur de la Salle had previously passed ..."
7. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida by Florida Supreme Court (1874)
"If the lights went out of sight on the port quarter, the bark's course ought to
have been somewhere between east, northeast, and north by east. ..."
8. The principal navigations voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"The same night at 12. of the clocke we sounded, but had no ground, in 120.
fathoms, being fifty leagues from the one side by our reckoning east northeast ..."
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