leewards

A loggia opening leewards, with only small openings windwards, will have a steady airflow through the building because the airflow over and around it creates a low pressure within it, thus pulling in air in a steady stream through the small openings.

3. Design rules 1993

Sometimes even half the length of the lifeboat was driven over the transom and on the sloping deck of the wreck, off which she grated back into the sea to leewards.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

About three p.m., many of the enemy's ships having struck their colours, their line gave way; Admiral Gravina, with ten ships joining their frigates to leewards, stood towards Cadiz.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

Imagining wee should be discryed before we gott in, wee fell to leewards of Arrica about 14 leagues, by a bay they call the bay of

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

But if we find an enemy to be leewards of us, the whole fleet shall follow the admiral, vice-admiral, or other leading ship within musket shot of the enemy; giving so much liberty to the leading ship as after her broadside delivered she may stay and trim her sails.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

The spray was flying over her sparkling in the sun; the sailors were crouched under the weather bulwark, lashed to belaying-pins and stanchions to prevent themselves from shifting down to leewards.

The Treasure of the Incas 1867

E.N.E. or E.S.E. still forcing us to leewards, though using every effort by towing and otherwise to get off.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

About ten at night we weighed anchor, in doing which we broke the flukes of both our starboard anchors, for which reason we had to man our long-boat, and tow the ship all night against the current, which otherwise would have carried us farther to leewards than we could have made up again in three days, unless we had got a fresh gale of wind, so strong is the current at this place.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

Having given all these directions, I was put into my cask and safely carried to the boat, on which I gave immediate orders to bear up to leewards, where I took in Mr Fowler and ten more of our people.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

So they made sail, standing farther out from the land, but going to leewards, we were forced to stand off and on all day and night, lest in the night she might slip into Aden.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784