Citations:norther

Verb

 * 1872, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 527:
 * ... and the Iona finding a northering of wind, flattened in sheets and luffed landwards , while a mile on her lee beam the Norman was tearing along with ...


 * 1895, Charles Allen Sumner, Notes of Travel in Sweden: With Jottings on the Return Trip to England, page 14:
 * for some time after we had “northered,” almost as fast as the score of crafts we met at the mouth of the river descended from our sight.


 * 1939, Thomas Allin, The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin: 1667-1678
 * At 6 we tacked and lay S. by E. until 12 and then tacked and lay N.W. by W. until 4, and then the wind northered to the N.W. We tacked and lay up S.W.
 * About 12 oclock we tacked again, the wind coming to the W.N.W. and about two N.W. by N. and about 5 N.N.W. We steered W. by S. At 6 the wind northered; we ...
 * About 12 oclock we tacked again, the wind coming to the W.N.W. and about two N.W. by N. and about 5 N.N.W. We steered W. by S. At 6 the wind northered; we ...


 * 1889 July 9, Daily News 3/6, quoted in 1908, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, page 211:
 * In a northering breeze the Valkyrie had just the better of the Irex.
 * 2013, Alan Le May, The Searchers, Pinnacle Books                (ISBN 9780786031436)
 * A northering wind came up when the sun was gone; its bite reminded them that they had been riding deep into the fall of the year. They huddled against their ...