NNW
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Their shape indicates the glacier moved in a NNW to SSE direction.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Friday and Saturday are looking at a jump in swell reaching shoulder to head high with improving conditions and N to NNW winds at 10mph.
From Time Magazine Archive
The significance of the poet's looking to the NNW is not plain; his window may have faced that way.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
A diagram will show clearly just why this is so: The ship at A finds the light bearing NNW 2 points off her bow.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
NNW Navajoa in a sparse grassway, 20 feet wide, bordering an open sewer, which coursed northward into the R�o Mayo.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.
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