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leeward
/ˈliwɚd/
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What does leeward mean?
adjective
- On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
adverb
- Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
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Our ship, being light, rolled so as almost to send the fore yard-arm under water, and drifted off bodily, to leeward.
Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.
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Stillwell's party had pitched their tent about ten paces to the leeward side of ours, of which stratagem they continually reminded us.
After a moment I walked over to leeward and my heart flew into my mouth at the nearness of the land on the bow.
The windward side was uninviting, but there was a good port to leeward, and I hauled in now close on the wind for that.