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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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

The rear was normally the most leewardly end of the line, and an oblique attack on it could be parried by wearing together.

From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)

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 Fitzroy, Robert

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 Williamson, John

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 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)