Both Uses of
windward
in
Treasure Island
- If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would.†
Chpt 11 *
- 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.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(windward) the direction or side from which the wind is comingeditor's notes: When someone refers to a "north wind", they are saying that "windward" is north.