leeward
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2VERB + LEEWARD
said
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on
Definitions
adj
On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
adv
Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]
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4Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and ma
WiktionaryNo lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]
WiktionaryThe areas with lowest precipitation are on the leeward side of the mountains.
Tatoeba · #3379078Parts facing the oncoming flow are said to be windward, and parts facing away from the flow are said to be leeward.
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