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leeward
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Definition:the side sheltered from the wind
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"Whew!" he whistled at last—" the squall's gone off to leeward, I think.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side.
Papa shouted above the wind, “I don’t know if we can take much more of this.”
Wilson Rawls. Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)
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Keep away, boy—keep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us.
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn
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As we were almost constantly on a wind, and the breeze was not a little stiff, the ship heeled to leeward very considerably; and whenever her starboard side was to leeward, the sliding door between the cabins slid open, and so remained, nobody taking the trouble to get up and shut it.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Oblong Box (1844)
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as I stood uncertainly in the lee of the doorway, shivering and trying to get my bearings, I heard the long mournful boom of a fog horn.
Ruth Ware. The Woman in Cabin 10, p.188 (2016)
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“if once we dropped to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being boarded by the gigs;
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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