How To Use Leeward In A Sentence
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But this is too long a falling to 'leeward' of our story, as the sailors would call it; so we will come right back into the wind again.
Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
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The other way to take in the amazing variety of underwater sites that line the leeward side of Bonaire is by shore diving.
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I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward.
Chapter 25
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on the leeward side of the island
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Start with helms staggered on the beach by skill factor (as decided by the fleet captain) from windward to leeward.
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Shortly after leaving our anchorage we passed close to leeward of a long rakish-looking lateener, on board which, as ill-luck would have it, an anchor-watch was being kept.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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Sand grains are blown up the windward side of the heap and over the crest until the leeward side of the dune is so steep that it slumps under its own weight.
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Every now and then my ears would pop with the pressure, despite us having all our windows on the leeward side of the house open.
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I have stated that there was a reef to leeward: it should rather be called a shoal, since it was a sort of muddy sand-bank formed by the current of the river, and running diagonally into the sea for a long distance -- a sort of low peninsula.
Ran Away to Sea
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The guny swoops for it and misses, and the flying - fish, gaining its altitude by rising, kite-like, against the wind, turns in a half-circle and skims off to leeward, gliding on the bosom of the wind.
Chapter 9
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In turn, the talking man of the windward coast, the talking man of the leeward coast, and the talking man of the mountain villages, each backed by his group of lesser talking men and chiefs, arose and made oration.
THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
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We camped on the leeward side of the mountain.
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Most importantly, in our ameliorated reading, the ship that is the Church is seen not wallowing passively before the onslaught of waves coming from windward and leeward.
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Fortunately the wind increased further to some 6 knots and carried the fleet comfortably around Koh Larn, down to the leeward mark near the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel and back to the finish line at the flagpole of the Club.
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I have second thoughts as I begin to cut a traverse up and across a powdery leeward slope.
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It is curious that the drift to leeward of the cairn, that is
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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The lower-topsail, its sheets parted by the fall of the crojack-yard, was tearing out of the bolt-ropes and ribboning away to leeward and making such an uproar that they might well expect its yard to carry away.
CHAPTER XLVI
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On the leeward side is the Caribbean; on the windward side, the Atlantic.
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The ship to windward would back her main yards and the one to leeward her foreyards for close maneuvering.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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The 20-to 30-hole moveable outhouse was a discreet distance to the leeward.
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The Turtle Dove was coming north when she was driven even further to leeward.
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'Twas grey -- grey everywhere: the sky lead-colored, with deeper shades toward the east, where a bank of cloud blotted the coast line: the thick rain descending straight, with hardly wind enough to set the sails flapping; the sea spread like a plate of lead, save only where, to leeward, a streak of curded white crawled away from under the _Godsend's_ keel.
The Splendid Spur
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On the leeward side are about 60 dive sites, each marked with a yellow-painted stone bearing the name of the site.
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When they heard the Cages bell, not to leeward where it should have been but off the port bow, the helmsman panicked.
THE MAIN CAGES
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What you imagined to be a sailing vessel is that dark cloud there, coming up from the leeward, which is fast shutting out the horizon from view.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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On the leeward side, the best beaches can be found in the southern half of the island.
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And then again to quarters; for half the day's work, or more than half, still remained to be done; and hardly were the decks cleared afresh, and the damage repaired as best it could be, when she came ranging up to leeward, as closehauled as she could.
Great Sea Stories
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A vessel in which the loss of ground downwind is minimal is described as weatherly, as opposed to leewardly.
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a leeward tide is dangerous for small boats
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He flails for a while, and then clambers up the leeward side of the hull.
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Thus, shady leeward slopes often have weak layers beneath cakes of windblown snow - a perfect recipe for a slab avalanche.
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We are housed on the "leeward" side of the base -- a boat ride from the Cuban mainland where the detainees are imprisoned and the military commissions take place.
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Blowing up the windward slope, wind will "scour" snow off the surface, carry it over the summit, and deposit it on the leeward side.
Avalanche
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The waves great foam-streaked monsters so big that the full power approach up the leeward side was a climb that seemed to take for ever.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Unfortunately, she was dead to leeward of us, and was drawing ahead so fast as to leave the probability she would forereach upon us, unless we took to all our oars.
Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale
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Sure enough, about two miles to the leeward of us was a fine barque, at once pronounced a 'spouter' (whaler), and an American.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
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Fences placed above the starting zone can prevent snow from drifting into leeward basins, thus reducing drift loading.
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Presently we reached the leeward side and came in sight of the ocean.
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He knew, by the ancient telegraphy of smoke-signalling, the message was being conveyed from village to village and tribe to tribe that a labour-recruiter was on the leeward coast.
CHAPTER X
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In sunnier, drier areas (often in their own micro-climates just a few miles away on the leeward side of the island) they plant succulents and even cacti.
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Thanks to constant trade winds, the divi-divis serve as a natural compass: they're bent toward the island's leeward - or western - side, where most of the hotels are.
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He has been identified as 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward, an air racer, movie stunt pilot and real estate developer from Florida.
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Unusual wind patterns at lunch time saw the first race start in light northerlies, but the fleet had to contend with lulls in the middle of the race course, and then southerlies at the leeward mark, which turned the first downwind leg back into a beat!
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The ship to windward would back her main yards and the one to leeward her foreyards for close maneuvering.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Sailing were first to round the mark and set off back towards the leeward mark with gennaker - and one hull - flying, extending their lead over the pack.
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There was a night when the wind backed round and blew foul but gently, with Hornblower out of bed a dozen times, fuming with impatience when Hotspur had to go on the port tack and head directly out from the land, but then came the wonderful dawn with the wind coming from the south west in gentle puffs, and then from the westward in a strong breeze that just allowed studding sails to be spread as Hotspur reached southward to make a noon position with Cape Roca just out of sight to leeward.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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The clarity along the leeward stretches usually is good, with two - to three-foot sub-surface visibility.
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Even then he was in the ocean depths miles to windward of our leeward drift, and the likelihood was that he was already portioned out in the maws of many sharks.
THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
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A smaller sailing ship with the same relative proportions as a larger ship was doomed by the mathematics of the situation to be a more leewardly ship.
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She had entered the warehouse from the leeward side and found the stairs without difficulty.
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A tropical storm watch is in effect for the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, Nevis and St. Kitts.
Tropical Storm Nate expected to strengthen in Gulf
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While some of the racing fleet were under spinnaker heading west, ‘Loose Cannon’ had already rounded the leeward mark and was heading back east.
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The mizenmast, heel upward, leaned against the side of the poop in a slanting position, showing that it had fallen forward as well as sideways; and immediately to leeward, in the water that heaved and seethed round us, rose and fell a tangle of wrecked spars, sails, and rigging.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
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If the wind is forced over them on the leeward side of the mountain the air sinks, creating an area of high pressure and clear skies.
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Yet it never occurred to me that the wonderful and technically correct marines hanging on his walls were due to anything but the artist's conscientious study of his subject, and only his casual mispronounciation of the word "leeward," which landsmen pronounce as spelled, but which rolls off the tongue of a sailor, be he former dock rat or naval officer, as "looward," and his giving the long sounds to the vowels of the words "patent" and "tackle," that induced me to ask if he had ever been to sea.
The Grain Ship
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Something about winds and not being on the leeward side of that huge body of water.
Life on the South Side of the Lake
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The rain shadow on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range and the Andes, as well as a coastal inversion layer created by the cold offshore Humboldt Current, keep this over 20 million-year-old desert 50 times drier than California's Death Valley.
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The leeward water was green and relatively weed-free; however, when walking the rocks, I like the option of casting into the open Gulf water.
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Her motion was violent and, to the uninitiated, quite unpredictable, and she was hardly more weatherly than a raft, sagging off to leeward in a spineless fashion that boded ill for any prospect of working up to Plymouth while any easterly component prevailed in the wind.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward.
CHAPTER XXXIV
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Montserrat is British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
Montserrat
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As a flat, infertile protectorate of Britain, isolated at the northern fringe of the Leeward chain, you might expect it to offer nothing to sybarites, particularly in matters of food.
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The mast is quite flexible, and, with this much sail and no standing riggings, the top is prone to twist to leeward considerably when the wind picks up.
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Kailua-Kona, which means "leeward" in Hawaiian, is on the sunny west coast of Hawaii's Big
Luxist
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Both the Leeward and Windward Islands are more challenging due to the open ocean sailing and distances between islands.
Susan Fogwell: Bareboat Sailing Options In The Caribbean
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It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.'
On Dictionaries
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Short, shallow fetches prevent major whitecaps on small bodies of water, and a leeward shoreline always is within reach.
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Finding we could not weather the reef, and that _it was too late had it been in our power to give any assistance_; and still fearing that we might be embayed or entangled by the supposed chain or patches; all therefore that remained for us to do was either by dint of carrying sail to weather the reef to the southward, (meaning the Cato's Bank,) or, if failing in that, to push to leeward and endeavour to find a passage through the _patches of reef_ to the northward.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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We camped on the leeward side of the mountain.
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I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Company's steamer ‘Nemesis,’ under my command, was obliged to part company with the fleet, being light, and consequently very leewardly.
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Communities on the coral atolls are usually concentrated along the leeward shoreline of lagoons.
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The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.
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At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind.
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The trail, just off the leeward highway, is not difficult, though there are a few steep areas requiring a moderate degree of fitness.
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Cambria was generously given the weather end of the line but as the signal was given the wind changed and made her the most leewardly boat, resulting in a poor start.
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Brown pelicans and frigatebirds with vast wingspans soar on the Leeward thermals, and laughing gulls cackle.
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On the leeward side of these rocks, in little hollows of the stone, he found a quantity of the eggs of some seafowl.
Harrigan
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The problem with sailing in strong winds with light crews, is that we're both so high up above the boom, we can't see much to leeward, as the sails block our view.
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On the other extreme, don't ease the traveler to leeward so much that the genoa backwinds the entire main.
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`If they are to leeward like they should be, those are the two navy ships there and there.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Harbor very Plaine, and to be sure we went into a small Harbor a mile to leeward of the Fort. we wear tolde att Antegua that thiss was a free Port for Eight years, which we found to be so. [109] the governor gave us Liberty to come in, and the next day sent out hands to bring us in to the right harbor, under Commd. of the forte. the next day our cable brake and she drave ashore; but not being willing to loose her, gott her off with one Anchor and cable off, and one end of a cable ashore, and so gott her into the Soft woose, [110] because wee would not be att the charge of Negro's and to pumpe her. thus the good shipp
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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The T-shaped cockpit provides plenty of leg space and seats are not so far apart that you can't brace to leeward if necessary.
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Ay, ay, sir!" came the response, faintly heard above the howl of the wind, the thunder of the surf on the rocks to leeward, the heavy "slosh" of a sea in over the bows, and the hair-raising slatting of the canvas overhead.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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Rivers demanded shallow craft, so the Orkney-man in the service built his river boats with ‘flat floors’ which made them very leewardly; but he retained the high bow and stern posts of his island fishing boats, and their two sharp ends.
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For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN
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Windward slopes have gentle rises while leeward slopes can have drastic drop offs.
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That's what made us fetch to leeward," the captain interrupted, desiring to vindicate his seamanship.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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He does not pause, but goes straight to work on the leeward side of the shed with his hand axe.
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The mountain, however, showed now on the port bow; so, the ship must necessarily have run down a considerable portion of the western coast, after they had abandoned the idea of weathering the island on the port tack -- which they had done as soon as they were alarmed by the sound of breakers, letting her drive to leeward -- before the collision with the berg.
The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
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they were sailing leeward
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Gas up and take the long way back, along Haleakala's leeward slope.
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Looking for shelter, he finds himself a place to sit in the leeward side of a snowdrift.
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As for himself, he took his stand beside the booby-hatch, where he could gauge the Elsinore, gaze to leeward, and keep his eye on the helmsmen.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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I'm standing with Pete Melvin in the leeward cockpit when there is an almighty bang.
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Over the horizon to leeward was appearing a long line of ships, closehauled.
Flying Colours
