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LEEWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side of something that is sheltered from the wind
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("leeward" is a kind of...):
face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)
Antonym:
windward (the side of something that is toward the wind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The direction in which the wind is blowing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("leeward" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leeward"):
leeward side; to leeward (the side sheltered from the wind)
Antonym:
windward (the direction from which the wind is coming)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the side away from the wind
Example:
on the leeward side of the island
Classified under:
Similar:
downwind; lee (towards the side away from the wind)
Antonym:
windward (on the side exposed to the wind)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Away from the wind
Example:
they were sailing leeward
Synonyms:
leeward; upwind
Classified under:
Antonym:
windward (toward the wind)
Context examples:
As I say, I was not afraid to meet my own death, there, a few hundred yards to leeward; but I was appalled at the thought that Maud must die.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As we ran off to get our leeward position of the last lee boat, we found the ocean fairly carpeted with sleeping seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As we clung to the lee rail and worked our way aft, I happened to glance to leeward.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It partook of the magnitude and volume of distant thunder, and it came to us directly from leeward, rising above the crash of the surf and travelling directly in the teeth of the storm.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was in such a storm, and the worst that we had experienced, that I cast a weary glance to leeward, not in quest of anything, but more from the weariness of facing the elemental strife, and in mute appeal, almost, to the wrathful powers to cease and let us be.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was our duty to sail the Ghost well to leeward of the last lee boat, so that all the boats should have fair wind to run for us in case of squalls or threatening weather.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A snappy breeze was blowing from the west with the promise of more wind behind it; and there, to leeward, in the troubled silver of the rising sun, appeared and disappeared a black speck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He had entered the fog to windward of the steamer, and while the steamer had blindly driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him, he had come about and out of his shelter and was now running down to re-enter to leeward.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
