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Definition of Leewards
1. leeward [n] - See also: leeward
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leewards
Literary usage of Leewards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... from them to the eastwards, towards a ship then to leewards, wch we suposed
to be a Hollander, but proved a Sweed bound for ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"... and the Windward Islands shared the second place with the leewards. As the
year wore on things grew worse instead of better, and the Windwards, ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"A „ iii • t /• ii • I Admirall The reason why the Admirall came to leewards (as
Why the to fetch us up, and to keepe us company, they could leewards. not ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"ji • j /• ii • i Admirall The reason why the Admirall came to leewards (as Why the
... they could leewards. not use their Ordnance to the weather of us, ..."
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