He put up at a little inn that night and rode hard, east by south, all the next day.

A. To steer off to the eastward, or east by south, just as the wind was; that was near the course that was ordered.

Este�pa, a town of Southern Spain, province of Seville, 50 miles east by south of Seville.

We now bore up under a reefed foresail, and kept the ship on her course, east by south.

He told me that Newport lay east by south half south, but I don't believe it.