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Definition of Leeward
1. Adverb. Toward the wind. "They were sailing leeward"
2. Adjective. On the side away from the wind. "On the leeward side of the island"
3. Noun. The direction in which the wind is blowing.
4. Noun. The side of something that is sheltered from the wind.
Definition of Leeward
1. a. Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship.
Definition of Leeward
1. Adjective. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing. Downwind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leeward
1. the direction toward which the wind is blowing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeward
Literary usage of Leeward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783 by Charles McLean Andrews (1912)
"leeward Islands. 1691-1782. Original Correspondence with the Board of Trade. ...
Former BT leeward Islands 39, though of date later than 1783 and now ..."
2. Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"Gov* of Barbados? and Gmf. of leeward Islands* S1r, You will receive this Letter
from Major Gen! Hopson,4 whom the King has appointed Commander in Chief of ..."
3. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"UNDER the denomination of Windward Islands, we include the whole range from the
Virgins to Trinidad; and under that of leeward Islands, the range which ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1848)
"Hamburgh schooner Herold, Kruger, master, from the leeward, in a wrecked condition.
May 15. American barque Adeline, Gamage, master, from New York, ..."
5. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"THE WEST INDIES : GENERAL SURVEY channels flowing between the long chain of the
Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles—Nomenclature—"Windward" and " leeward ..."
6. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"The truss is assumed to have frictionless rollers under the leeward side.
Calculate the reactions by means of force and equilibrium polygons. ..."
7. Handbook of Climatology by Julius von Hann (1903)
"This further increases the dryness on the leeward side, ... The clouds form to
leeward of the peak and drift away 150 km. under the influence of the steady ..."
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