Southeast By East (Noun)
Meaning
The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The hikers adjusted their course to southeast by east to avoid the dense forest.
- The captain ordered the helmsman to steer the ship southeast by east to catch the trade winds.
- On the old chart, southeast by east was indicated by a distinct marker, separating it from true southeast.
- During navigation, pilots consider the 16 principal directions of a compass rose, with southeast by east as a cardinal bearing.
- At nightfall, the settlers deliberately buried their supplies, placing an ancient weathered cedar northeast to northwest to face approximately southeast by east in unrelieved expanse of twilight black to bring eventual sunshine home west before days truly needed up inside above bright yet safe also or we forgot north altogether beyond rising great water today nothing some darkness surrounds how peaceful beautiful way I'll find us another place very much up we.