nor'rer

Updated: May 27, 2025

Different from any Christmas eve before: pulling off his scuffed cap to feel the full strength of the "nor'rer." Whew! how it blew! straight from the ice-fields of the Pole, he thought. So few people there were up there to be glad Christ was coming!

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863