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Definition
the direction from which the wind is coming
- If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would.Chapter 11 — What I Heard in the Apple Barrel (70% in)
- They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution.Chapter 31 — The Treasure-hunt—Flint's Pointer (7% in)
There are no more uses of "windward" in Treasure Island.
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