lee shore

a shore toward which the wind blows.

QUIZZES

It’d be a real faux pas to miss this quiz on the words from August 3–9, 2020!

Question 1 of 7

What does “vacillate” mean?

on a lee shore, in difficulty or danger.

First recorded in 1570–80

Now you lubberly sons of swabs have got me on a lee-shore with all anchors draggin!
Cursed|George Allan England
In passing through the Bay of Gibraltar, he met with very bad weather under a lee-shore.
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2)|Anonymous
A man cannot paint a storm with the vessel under bare poles on a lee-shore.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III|Thomas Moore
They skirted a lee-shore and had to beat up to windward again and again to clear themselves.
The Harbor Master|Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Never did poor mariners on a lee-shore more earnestly long for the dawning light than we did now.
In the Andamans and Nicobars|C. Boden Kloss