norther

noun

1. A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.

   “Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther."”

   “Keep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther.”

verb

1. To move or go toward the north.

   “The hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency.”

   “But from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy.”

   “One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...”

   “The map maintained that the mountains were those along whose far flank I'd northered on foot, and one molar-tooth peak certainly looked like Squaretop.”

   “"In that direction, we have a southbound breeze all the way to the ground." […] The northering sun was peeking under the curve of the balloon. “We're coming at them from out of the sun.””

2. To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.

   “The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.”

   “Att noone it came S. afterwardes westerly, and after sunnesett it northered, and blew a verie stiffe gale; some raine.”

adj

1. (comparative, dialectal, form-of)comparative form of north: more north; northern

   “"Northest" of all There is something about Scandinavia that leads those who live there to stress the "northness" of their position … This gentleman, it will be remembered, claimed to live "norther" than any other man. … he placed chief emphasis on the fact that no man lived norther than he.”

   “Clerk: […] And he come across this one salesman. From up north. Stone: North Texas? Clerk: Norther than that. Thought he said New York, but I could be mistaken.”

   “Nothing can be norther than the North Pole […]”