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poleward

[pohl-werd]

pole·ward

[pohl-werd]
adverb
1.
Also, pole·wards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
adjective
2.
facing or moving toward the North or South Pole.

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Poleward is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1870–75; pole2 + -ward
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