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the direction toward which the wind is blowing

The leeward side of the island gets little rain.

they were sailing leeward
The lion approached from the leeward side.
She steered around to the leeward side of the bar and, in the stiller waters, beached as gently as a first kiss.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

leeward = the direction toward which the wind is blowing

The angle of the bar and its gentle flow gathered the shells on the leeward side and laid them gently upon the sand without breaking them.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

leeward = the direction toward which the wind is blowing

She read the sea and, having learned from the shells, would embark from the leeward side and head straight for land from here.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

leeward = the direction toward which the wind is blowing

Leeward and windward coral reefs have different characteristics.
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...
Jack London -- White Fang
After a moment I walked over to leeward and my heart flew into my mouth at the nearness of the land on the bow.
Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Sharer
I set my travelsack on the leeward side of one of the greystones and the two of us began to set up camp.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
In the log book he wrote "full gale" again and again, hiding out the storms in some little cove on the leeward sides of an island.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
"Only some survivors, on the island's leeward side."
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
The river sweats 266 Oil and tar The barges drift With the turning tide Red sails Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
Coast still dimly visible about thirty leagues to leeward.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The door was leeward, but we all knew that later the wind would shift.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
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.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
In each crack grew a gnarly sea grape tree deformed from leeward winds.
Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
About fifty miles short of Barbers Point, a base on the leeward side of Oahu, his crew spotted something.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
It was a teetering three-story clapboard building, leaning leeward, locked and dark.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato

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