Definitions
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- adverb nautical
leeward
Etymologies
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Examples
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“For goodness sake, get to looard before the Second sees you!”
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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"And he's farther down to looard, too," supplemented Bush.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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"For goodness sake, get to looard before the Second sees you!"
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We just put this Farallone before the wind, and run till we're well to looard of our port of departure and reasonably well up with some other place, where they have an American Consul.
The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907
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"Yes, I seed ye keepin 'well to looard!" said Hiram drily.
The Island Treasure 1887
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Th 'seet on him tuk a gurt looard off Sid's mind, but yet he wor varry freetened.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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I could see I was going considerable to looard of the bush, so I worked my starboard wing slow and went ahead strong on the port one, but it wouldn't answer; I could see I was going to broach to, so I slowed down on both, and lit.
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Mark Twain 1872
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“He seems to be fighting with someone to looard of him.
The Ghost Pirates 2007
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"He seems to be fighting with someone to looard of him.
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