Definition of Southings

1. Noun. (plural of southing) ¹

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Definition of Southings

1. southing [n] - See also: southing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southings

southern spatterdock
southern vole
southern voles
southern white cedar
southern yellow pine
southernism
southernly
southernness
southernnesses
southerns
southernwood
southernwoods
southers
southing
southings (current term)
southland
southlands
southly
southness
southnesses
southpaw
southpaws
southren
southron
southrons
souths
southsaid
southsay

Literary usage of Southings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1907)
"The results of these calculations are to be entered in a book, in four columns — for northings, southings, eastings, and westings respectively. ..."

2. A System of Geometry and Trigonometry: Together with a Treatise on Surveying by Abel Flint (1825)
"When the work is thus far prepared, multiply tho several numbers in the second Departure column by the northings or southings standing against them ..."

3. Mathematical Instruments: Their Construction, Adjustment, Testing, and Use by John Fry Heather (1891)
"The method of northings, southings, eastings, and westings, ia another most admirable system of plotting, especially useful ..."

4. The Practice of Engineering Field Work, Applied to Land, Hydrographic, and by W. Davis Haskoll (1858)
"Setting aside, the plotting of a traverse in the above manner, considerable advantage may be derived from the calculation of northings and southings, ..."

5. The Coal and Metal Miners' Pocketbook of Principles, Rules, Formulas, and Tables by Thomas J. Foster (1905)
"Let the distance ed be incorrect. With two or more errors nothing can be done. The first location of a is southings 0, westings 0; the second location is ..."

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