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TO LEEWARD
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side sheltered from the wind
Synonyms:
leeward side; to leeward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("to leeward" is a kind of...):
leeward (the direction in which the wind is blowing)
Context examples:
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
We knew she carried fourteen boats to our five (we were one short through the desertion of Wainwright), and she began dropping them far to leeward of our last boat, continued dropping them athwart our course, and finished dropping them far to windward of our first weather boat.
(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)
