Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. On or toward the side to which the wind is blowing.
- n. The lee side or quarter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the quarter toward which the wind blows; being in the direction of the wind: opposed to windward: as, a leeward course.
- n. The point or direction opposite to that from which the wind blows: as, to fall to leeward.
- Toward the lee, or that part toward which the wind blows: opposed to windward.
Wiktionary
- adj. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing. Downwind.
- adv. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing. Downwind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Naut.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to
windward
WordNet 3.0
- n. the direction in which the wind is blowing
- adv. toward the wind
- adj. on the side away from the wind
- n. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
Etymologies
- lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What you imagined to be a sailing vessel is that dark cloud there, coming up from the leeward, which is fast shutting out the horizon from view.”
“We are housed on the "leeward" side of the base -- a boat ride from the Cuban mainland where the detainees are imprisoned and the military commissions take place.”
“Kailua-Kona, which means "leeward" in Hawaiian, is on the sunny west coast of Hawaii's Big”
“Yet it never occurred to me that the wonderful and technically correct marines hanging on his walls were due to anything but the artist's conscientious study of his subject, and only his casual mispronounciation of the word "leeward," which landsmen pronounce as spelled, but which rolls off the tongue of a sailor, be he former dock rat or naval officer, as "looward," and his giving the long sounds to the vowels of the words "patent" and "tackle," that induced me to ask if he had ever been to sea.”
“But this is too long a falling to 'leeward' of our story, as the sailors would call it; so we will come right back into the wind again.”
“Something about winds and not being on the leeward side of that huge body of water.”
“The long-tailed tits and yellowhammers stay close to the hedgetops, peeping out into corduroy fields on the leeward side.”
“With pounding waves on the windward side and calm seas on the leeward side, the four main islands, Martinique, St.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Fogwell: Bareboat Sailing Options In The Caribbean
“What compelled generations to make their homes there, on the leeward sides of these treeless islands, the only spot that offered any protection from the open ocean to the west?”
“Also dont forget you cant whisle either, and women aint allowed on board, oh and urinate on the leeward side .... the last one really aint a superstition just a good piece of advice!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leeward’.
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yoshiyahu's Words
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word set 2
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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Airborn
Words and phrases from Kenneth Oppel's book, Airborn.
running lights, starboard, bow, gondola, bullhorn, rudder man, gas cell, keel, catwalk, stern, cargo bay, machinist and 152 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
Words and phrase from Scott Lynch's book, Red Seas Under Red Skies.
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
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big book gre
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mingustav's Words
provincial, pedestrian, prosody, vituperative, brobdingnagian, feckless, dunderhead, turgid, leeward, inure, impecunious, invidious and 13 more...
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The Wasteland
Words found in Eliot's 'The Wasteland.'
Shantih, Damyata, Dayadhvam, Datta, againe, Ile, Le Prince d'Aquit..., Quando fiam ceu c..., Poi s'ascose nel ..., Coriolanus, aetherial, solicitor and 70 more...
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sailing
ballast, beam, boom, bow, bowsprit, bridge, buoy, chart, cockpit, current, davits, deck and 86 more...
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Directionality & Position
abaft, larboard, contrariwise, widdershins, bass-ackward, cant, askew, cattywampus, yaw-ways, slaunchways, thwartwise, askance and 32 more...
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pynchonesque
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Nautical
capital, indefatigable, leeward, forecastle, windlass, brigantine, backstay
Tweets
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bilby
The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
- TS Eliot, 'The Wasteland'. Jul 22, 2009
bilby Lee's magnetic personality attracts just about everything. Sep 5, 2008