Antonym: windward. Similar words: rewarding, beware, prewar, lukewarm, award, inward, warden, toward. Meaning: ['lɪːwə(r)d] n. 1. the direction in which the wind is blowing 2. the side of something that is sheltered from the wind. adj. on the side away from the wind. adv. toward the wind.
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(1) We camped on the leeward side of the mountain.
(2) The ship cruised slowly to leeward.
(3) The trees all listed to leeward.
(4) We picnicked on the leeward side of a wall.
(5) To my left, the leeward side of sixty-foot dunes rose like a wall alongside the road.
(6) I met them leeward of the middle vehicle, where they lent a hand to tip the wheelbarrow into a stable position.
(7) But it was on the leeward side of the house, and it had stood up to storms before.
(8) With no freeboard to counterbalance, the leeward rail pressed down, admitting the flood, and the boy bailed furiously.
(9) By sailing the board at an angle the leeward rail digs in providing more sideways resistance.
(10) The fishermen from the leeward side succeeded in wrestling to shore about two dozen of the whales every season.
(11) a harbour on the leeward side of the island.
(12) We steered a course to leeward.
(13) Country Profile: Jamaica, Belize(sentencedict.com/leeward.html), Windward and Leeward Islands.
(14) The ship sagged ( away ) to leeward.
(15) A leeward tide is dangerous for small boats.
(16) Leeward : The side farthest from the wind.
(17) An island of the Netherlands in the Leeward Islands north of the Venezuela coast. It is a popular Caribbean resort area.
(18) A leeward side of the box is provided with at least one air outlet having a vent check valve.
(19) In the leeward slope, downslope wind and bypass-hill airflow affected the atmospheric vertical motion, which led the precipitation changes.
(20) The ratio of mean tracer concentrations on leeward side to that on wind-ward side was about8 for street canyons where the space between buildings was small.
(21) In sailing, one basic rule is that the leeward boat has the right - of - way over windward boat.
(22) Conversely, do not be bullied by the boat to leeward.
(23) At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind.
(24) The sentence I had just written in a staid serif typeface suddenly was pushed leeward.
(25) It is less developed, or even absent, within the lagoon and on the seaward side of the leeward reef.
(26) However, when sailing by the lee or directly downwind, her leeward side is the side on which her mainsail lies. The other side is her windward side.
(27) The results show that, the whole protection area is composed of primary area leeward shelterbelt from 2.5H to 19H and second area windward shelterbelt within 3.5H.
(28) In the case of angle of attacks, the high pressure region before the leeward side jet enlarged, the region of jet wraparound effect moving forward, and the jet interaction control was more effective.
(29) The capital of St. Christopher-Nevis, on St. Christopher Island in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. Population, 4,725.
(30) But at least in the prestige and morality and justice, fell leeward.
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