leeward


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Synonyms for leeward

the direction in which the wind is blowing

the side of something that is sheltered from the wind

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on the side away from the wind

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toward the wind

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Once more they made their leeward pull down the port side of the Lancashire Queen, and once more we churned down after them before the wind.
On the row to windward they always gained on us, so that they were half-way down the ship's side on the row to leeward when we were passing the bow.
I looked for the boat, and, while Wolf Larsen cleared the boat- tackles, saw it lift to leeward on a big sea an not a score of feet away.
"Yes, that is what fetched you to leeward," McCoy went on.
"It can't be more than a hundred miles to leeward."
Konig grinned vindictively and turned away, while Captain Davenport leaned against the cabin and for half an hour spoke no word, contenting himself with gazing to leeward with an expression of musing hopelessness on his face.
The wind returned, and the PYRENEES, her deck smoking and shimmering in the bright gray light, ran off dead to leeward. Then she worked back, port tack and starboard tack, crisscrossing her track, combing the sea for the Acteon Islands, which the masthead lookouts failed to sight.
The smoke columns along the heights became garrulous, and long before the Arangi was through the passage the entire leeward coast, from the salt-water men of the shore to the remotest bush villagers, knew that the labour recruiter was going in to Langa-Langa.
The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
Cornwall has taken 260 wickets from 55 first class matches at an average of 24, dominating for West Indies A and for domestic franchise Leeward Islands Hurricanes.
Leeward Renewable Energy, LLC has successfully completed the full-scale repower of its Mendota Hills Wind Farm located in Lee County, Illinois.
It is also cultivated in the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands of the Caribbean and Africa.
A hurricane watch is in effect for Kauai Leeward, Kauai Mountains, Kauai Windward, and Niihau.