beasterly — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Usage

   • Colloquial

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

   More examples (2)

   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.