OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11929

leeward

/ˈliːwəd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
de sotavento
On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
Phrases
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📚 adv • entry_id 11930

leeward

/ˈliːwəd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
a sotavento
Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen…
Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the…
Phrases
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