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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1538-1654
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Northerlie, adv. Also: northirlie, norderly. [e.m.E. northerly (1635): cf. ON. norðarliga and Northerlie,a.] Towards the north; in a northerly direction. — 1538 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 18.
Fra that passand northerlie 1565 Bamff Chart. 99.
Ane stryp … desending noitherlie down … enters in the said burn 1568 Grant Chart. 387.
Be est, northt est, northe, northerlie, northewest … unto the grett gray stayne 1596 Dalr. I. 54/13.
Thir Hebrides ar situat westirlie … Orknay northerlie or eisterlie 1598 (1600) Reg. Great S. 387/1.
And thairfra northirlie to the end of the thrie riggis c 1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 568.
Charroun runs wonder straight … and the mouth bendeth norderly to the ferry
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