Usually means: Wind or direction from the north.
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  1. northerly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. northerly: Merriam-Webster
  3. northerly, northerly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. northerly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. northerly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. northerly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Northerly, northerly: Wordnik
  8. northerly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. northerly: Wiktionary
  10. northerly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. northerly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. northerly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Northerly, northerly: Dictionary.com
  14. northerly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Northerly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Northerly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. northerly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. northerly: Rhymezone
  19. Northerly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. northerly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. northerly: FreeDictionary.org
  22. northerly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. northerly: Mnemonic Dictionary

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  1. northerly: Encyclopedia

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A wind blowing from the north.
adjective:  Facing the north; directed towards the north.
adjective:  Located in a northern region.
adjective:  Coming from the north.
adverb:  In an northward direction or position; (towards the) north.
adverb:  From the north.

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