Meaning of gone north about | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
   idiomatic, obsolete
2. Dead.
   idiomatic

Examples

“..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.”

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