alee

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  1. adverb At, on, or to the leeward side.

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  • I hear only the sound of myself as I flounder onward alee. —  Planet Atheism
  • I should just go to them anyways … I suppose? alee - if your econ class is offered through Schulich. —  WordPress.com News
  • These were doing their best to fly, but failing of that luck, put helm alee, and shivered in the wind, and made fine speeches, proving that they must win the day For this I have lived, and for this it would be worth my while to die, having no one left, I dare say now, in all the world to care for me Thus spake the junior lieutenant of that British ship, the Victory--a young man after the heart of Nelson, and gazing now on Nelson's face. —  Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • 'Up with the jib, reef the tops'l halliards, helm hard alee, and man the guns!' —  Little Women
  • "Go for'ard and hard alee without any noise," he said to me in a low voice. —  The Sea Wolf
 

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  1. Middle English a lee, after Icelandic ā hlē, alee; from a, on, + lee, q. v.
 

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