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southwardly

/south-werd-lee; Nautical suhth-erd-lee/US // ˈsaʊθ wərd li; Nautical ˈsʌð ərd li //

向南,南下,往南,南向

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : toward or from the south.

Examples

  • We were an hour in crossing the lake southwardly from this point, which would give a mean rate of five miles.

  • It lies a little above the bay where the river bends and runs south from there, so that you can see down the river southwardly.

  • We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all.

  • We here again sounded, and found a current setting still southwardly, and at the rate of three quarters of a mile per hour.

  • Upon sounding with two hundred fathoms, we here found a current setting southwardly at the rate of half a mile per hour.