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leeward

noun

  1. direction downwind from the point of reference
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adjective

  1. opposite side from incoming wind
L37051 on Wikidata ↗

adverb

  1. downwind
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈliːwəd/ / /ˈl(j)uːəd/ / /ˈliwɚd/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).

  1. On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).

  1. 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[…]