windward

• “The winds are coming in from the west, so they're blowing up what we call the windward side of the mountain, blowing up and up and up on that snowpack, and then the snow gets deposited on the leeward side.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007

• “That combined with the heavy snowfall, and the direction of the winds, if we could put Google Earth behind me once again, I just want to show that we're looking at a westerly flow from the winds, and as the winds come up the mountain, this is called the windward side of the mountain, they pile up the snow right here on the top, or peak, of the mountain.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007

• “A good way to learn to sail to windward is to sail alongside another boat.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sailing Fundamentals

• “For the whole “eye” of the island, as natives call the windward end, lay desert.”

  Island Nights' Entertainments

• “This, however, settled the relative sailing of the vessels, for it was admitted that although she, being small and light, could gain upon us in very light winds, yet whenever there was breeze enough to set us agoing, we walked away from her like hauling in a line; and in beating to windward, which is the best trial of a vessel, we had much the advantage of her.”

  Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative

• “We had a fair wind, which is something unusual when coming up, as the prevailing wind is the north, which blows directly down the coast; whence the northern are called the windward, and the southern the leeward ports.”

  Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative

• “We had a fair wind, which is something unusual when going up, as the prevailing wind is the north, which blows directly down the coast; whence the northern are called the windward, and the southern the leeward ports.”

  Two Years Before the Mast

• “To the windward were the dusky forms of ten or fifteen men, — some standing, others sitting a la Turk, and others half-reclining or quietly extended at full length upon the ground, — watching the operative of the culinary department with great seeming interest.”

  ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE

• “That side of the deck which the current of the wind first strikes, or what is called the windward side, is always considered as the post of honour.”

  Internet Archive: An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion of His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India company's service, to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ; taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Sir Erasmus Gower, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy

• “The islands are divided among the Barlavento ( "windward") islands (Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista) and the Sotavento ( "leeward") islands (Maio, Santiago, Fogo, and Brava).”

  Cape Verde

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