TO LEEWARD

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does to leeward mean? 

• TO LEEWARD (noun)
  The noun TO LEEWARD has 1 sense:

1. the side sheltered from the wind

  Familiarity information: TO LEEWARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO LEEWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side sheltered from the wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

leeward side; to leeward

Hypernyms ("to leeward" is a kind of...):

leeward (the direction in which the wind is blowing)

 Context examples 

I looked for the boat, and, while Wolf Larsen cleared the boat-tackles, saw it lift to leeward on a big sea an not a score of feet away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If he had been a gliding shadow before, he now became the ghost of such a shadow, as he crept and circled around, and came up well to leeward of the silent, motionless pair.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You see, sir, he went on, 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; whereas, the way we go the current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along the shore.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Late in the afternoon I sighted a steamer’s smoke on the horizon to leeward, and I knew it either for a Russian cruiser, or, more likely, the Macedonia still seeking the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As I did so, I let go of the tiller, which sprang sharp to leeward, and I think this saved my life, for it struck Hands across the chest and stopped him, for the moment, dead.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was just the faintest wind from the westward; but it breathed its last by the time we managed to get to leeward of the last lee boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As I say, I was not afraid to meet my own death, there, a few hundred yards to leeward; but I was appalled at the thought that Maud must die.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As we clung to the lee rail and worked our way aft, I happened to glance to leeward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As I passed to leeward of the galley on my way aft I was approached by the engineer we had rescued.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)