westermost

English

Etymology

west +‎ -er +‎ -most

Adjective

westermost (comparative more westermost, superlative most westermost)

1. Furthest to the west; westernmost.
   • 1785, John Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty For Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.:

     The distance between the two westermost is nearly the same, and they bear to each other S. by E. and N. by W.

   • 2011, Nathan G. Goodman, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin, page 117:

     The lightning, or matter thereof, (supposing it to have enter'd at the top of the house, as is the general receiv'd opinion,) first struck the southeast corner of the eastermost chimney; from which place it can be trac'd downwards, by cracks and other marks on the south side of the chimney, in a diagonal line, to the buttom of a kind of bulk-head, or place ras'd above the roof, to go out on the top of the house, and reaching from one chimney to the other; that it then appears to have gone up the E. side of the roof, near the edge of the S. side of the bulk-head to the ridge, and from thence descended the W. side of the roof, by the like way, to the bulkhead door, which it split, and melted part of an iron staple on the inside of the westermost side of the door-frame;

   • 2014, George Harmon Coxe, The Frightened Fiancée:

     Beyond this was a smaller waiting-room on the westermost side, and on the far wall was a blackboard on which incoming arrival times were listed.