eastwardly

[ eest-werd-lee ]

/ ˈist wərd li /

having an eastward direction or situation.

coming from the east: an eastwardly wind.

toward the east.

from the east.

Origin of eastwardly

First recorded in 1660–70; eastward + -ly

In a short time we discovered land at the distance of twenty or thirty miles, in an eastwardly direction.

A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute |Horace Holden
In 1873 he located a hundred miles of the road from Topolobampo eastwardly, and two years ago the construction commenced.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 |Various
Its general course, so far as he could learn, was eastwardly, and was therefore favorable to him.

Camp-fire and Wigwam |Edward Sylvester Ellis
Although the eastwardly current be not commonly found at the surface in Bass' Strait, it is not lost.

A Voyage to Terra Australis |Matthew Flinders

There it turns off eastwardly, having formed by its eddy, at this turn, the Banks of Newfoundland.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson |Thomas Jefferson