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Leeward   /lˈiwərd/   Listen
Leeward

adverb
1.
Toward the wind.  Synonym: upwind.
noun
1.
The direction in which the wind is blowing.
2.
The side of something that is sheltered from the wind.  Synonyms: lee, lee side.
adjective
1.
On the side away from the wind.



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"Leeward" Quotes from Famous Books



... to attempt keeping the sea in circumstances so very unfavourable, with ships so little calculated to run along a great extent of lee shore. This day the Prince of Wales being two or three miles to the leeward, the signal was made for her to tack into the fleet. At nine in the evening the wind coming to the east-south-east, Lieutenant Shortland fired a gun, and made the signal to veer ship and sail on the other tack. At this time the Prince of Wales ...
— The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay • Arthur Phillip
... very short time, although it seemed like long, weary minutes to the people on the yacht, her engines moved, her screw revolved, and she slowly moved around to leeward. If she could have done this half a minute sooner, she would have steamed out of the course of the Dunkery Beacon so that that vessel must have passed her, but she did not do it soon enough. The large ...
— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton
... craft, waved a mittened hand to signify that he agreed. In that riot of tempest and ruck of sea he was straining his eyes, trying to get a glimpse of the hulk on Razee. But the schooner had worked her way too far off to the west, pressed to leeward by the relentless ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... they fled In huddled rout: they had no heart to stand Before Eurypylus, for Hercules, To crown with glory his son's stalwart son, Thrilled them with panic. There behind their wall They cowered, as goats to leeward of a hill Shrink from the wild cold rushing of the wind That bringeth snow and heavy sleet and haft. No longing for the pasture tempteth them Over the brow to step, and face the blast, But huddling screened by rock-wall and ravine They abide the storm, and crop the scanty grass Under dim ...
— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus
... cautiously about the edges for some time. They were sure that the Monarch was still in there, but they could not ascertain at what point. Jeff went around to windward of the brush patch and set fire to it, and then joined Jess on the leeward side to watch for the reappearance of the Monarch. The wind was blowing fresh up the canyon and the fire ran rapidly through the dry brush, making a thick smoke and great noise. When the Monarch came out he came rapidly and from an unexpected ...
— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly


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