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Definition of Leeward tide
1. Noun. A tide that runs in the same direction as the wind is blowing. "A leeward tide is dangerous for small boats"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leeward Tide
Literary usage of Leeward tide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"When the (hip rides leeward tide, and the windin-Hi- ... that opinion : for it
is found, that when a fhip rides leeward tide and ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"5 Hiding leeward tide with more cable than the wind- ... When the ship rides
leeward tide, and the wind in- How to creases, care should be taken to give her ..."
3. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"... leeward tide, lee tide- Marie 17111 porte au vent, weather tide. La maree
monte , the tide comes in , it is flowing •water, it is flood. ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Riding leeward tide with more cable than the windward service, ... When the ship
rides leeward tide, and the wind increases, care should be taken to give ..."
5. The Life of James the Second King of England, &c.: Collected Out of Memoirs by Lewis Innes, Thomas Innes, James Stanier Clarke (1816)
"... the wind being north east, and a leeward tide. This happen'd well for us, for
by that means we had quicker knowledge of the approche of the Enemy; ..."
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