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the direction from which the wind is coming- The windward side of the island gets more rain.
windward = the direction from which the wind is coming
- In a sailboat race, it's generally better to be windward than leeward.
- Stay on the windward side of a backfire.
- Boy, you got to put ash and lime always windward to the tree.Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
- Unconscious of my blunder, I passed by Wolf Larsen and the hunter and flung the ashes over the side to windward.Jack London -- The Sea Wolf
- Seeds and plants from Sumatra and Java have been driven up by the surf on the windward side of the islands.Charles Darwin -- The Voyage of the Beagle
- The water right now on the Windward and North Shore is really not the place to be.Watson Okubo
- Stuart and I gathered up our boots and all our clothing and then positioned ourselves on the windward side of the shelter.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Signal Bristol and Fife to stay to windward of us.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- As she edged round the keep, she must have got to windward and smelt his cigar-smoke, for she exclaimed, "Hullo!E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- "There may be a settlement on the windward side of the island, then," said the captain.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
- Paul flicked it and saw a neat shed addition which ran the length of the house on its windward side.Stephen King -- Misery
- Lawrence Selden was among the passengers sailing this afternoon for Havana and the West Indies on the Windward Liner Antilles.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- The cunning knave is paddling dead to windward, and the Scud can never overtake him!James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- You can see by the way it's wind-cut that's the windward face.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- The snow had rizen onto the windward side of rocks and trees, where it gleamed like lacquer.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Steal soft from lap to lap, —A little great man in a circle small, Or navigate, with madrigals for sails, Blown gently windward by old ladies' sighs?Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Then we sat High on the ridge to windward of the stench, While each man kept he fellow alert and rated Roundly the sluggard if he chanced to nap.Sophocles -- Antigone
- If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
windward = the direction from which the wind is coming
windward = the direction from which the wind is coming
windward = the direction from which the wind is coming
windward = the direction from which the wind is coming