Usage examples (12)

• Steering, nor'-nor'-west, each following close upon the next ahead, they rode in deep silence.
• Night fell soon after this; but the long-boat still held her way, running before the wind, and steering a nor'-nor'-west course by compass.
• It was but scraps that reached me: how he "filled her on the starboard tack," and how "it came up sudden out of the nor'-nor'-west," and "there she was, high and dry."
• Even when he had to steer nor'-nor'-west arter that in the way o 'business he didn't like it, an' he was about the most cruelly disappointed man you ever saw when he...