beasterly

Definitions

Of the wind: cold, unpleasant, and from the east.

colloquial

Examples

“Yesterday I completed, with Emily's assistance (which nearly drove me mad) that packing of the great huge chest of books, boxes, etc., and she and I walked together, but it was bitter cold and ungenial, regular beasterly wind.”

“The ordinary English bee is generally tolerably well-behaved, but not always so, and is occasionally perfectly furious, especially if the wind is "beasterly."”

“I'm afeard 'tis a horrid beasterly wind, father.”

“The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly.”

“Landsmen can seldom tell⟳ you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter⟳ of vital importance to seamen.”

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