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to leeward

NOUN
  1. the side sheltered from the wind

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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
  • 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
  • '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
  • The Turtle Dove was coming north when she was driven even further to leeward.
  • The ship to windward would back her main yards and the one to leeward her foreyards for close maneuvering. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • 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
  • It is curious that the drift to leeward of the cairn, that is The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fences placed above the starting zone can prevent snow from drifting into leeward basins, thus reducing drift loading.
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