lewth

I warrant that whether we were going with the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth, that wart of hers was always towards the hedge, and that dimple towards me.

The Woodlanders 2006

I warrent that whether we were going with the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth, that wart of hers was always toward the hedge, and that dimple toward me.

The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

In the lewth of a codlin-tree, bivering wi’ fright,

The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's 1898

I warrant that whether we were going with the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth, that wart of hers was always towards the hedge, and that dimple towards me.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Glossary] _lewthy_, will be, _abounding in lewth_, i.e. sheltered.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings