leeward
adjective
pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the quarter toward which the wind blows (opposed to windward).
leewardly
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a word derived from
leeward.
Example Sentences
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I allow that they be only so much useless top hamper, makin’ a ship crank and leewardly.
From The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by John Williamson
Being a leewardly opening, it is unfit for any vessel to enter.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
Had his next signal been promptly obeyed, he might have passed again by the British fleet, in fairly good order, before it re-formed, and concentrated his fire on the more leewardly of its vessels.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
An empty purse.—To bag on a bowline, to be leewardly, to drop from a course.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Seeing the impossibility of bringing the leewardly vessels back against the wind in time to form up, Sidonia ran down with the windward ones and formed farther off.
From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by William Charles Henry Wood
