"nor'wester" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "northwester"
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        {
          "ref": "1974 August, P.J. Lamb, “Nor'wester's potential föhn influence on Canterbury Plains' (New Zealand) surface heat exchanges”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 17, number 3",
          "text": "For nor'west diurnal periods of similar extraterrestrial irradiance (EI), the nor'wester's potential influence tends to increase with the reduction of Qᵣ* by cloudiness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mary Anne Barker, Station Life in New Zealand, page 49",
          "text": "However, I am assured that I have not yet seen either a “howling nor'-wester,” nor its exact antithesis, “ a sutherly buster.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Christopher White, Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oysterman, page 1",
          "text": "The pattern is familiar: A nor'wester shuttles in a cold front from the Canadian plains and thoughts of spring are pirated off to sea.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, page 52",
          "text": "A place glimpsed as square fragments from the windows of a Saab 340 as it bucked in on a pesky nor'wester.",
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        "Alternative form of northwester"
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  "word": "nor'wester"
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          "ref": "1974 August, P.J. Lamb, “Nor'wester's potential föhn influence on Canterbury Plains' (New Zealand) surface heat exchanges”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 17, number 3",
          "text": "For nor'west diurnal periods of similar extraterrestrial irradiance (EI), the nor'wester's potential influence tends to increase with the reduction of Qᵣ* by cloudiness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mary Anne Barker, Station Life in New Zealand, page 49",
          "text": "However, I am assured that I have not yet seen either a “howling nor'-wester,” nor its exact antithesis, “ a sutherly buster.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Christopher White, Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oysterman, page 1",
          "text": "The pattern is familiar: A nor'wester shuttles in a cold front from the Canadian plains and thoughts of spring are pirated off to sea.",
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          "ref": "2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, page 52",
          "text": "A place glimpsed as square fragments from the windows of a Saab 340 as it bucked in on a pesky nor'wester.",
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