Leeward is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEEWARD in dictionary:

VERB:
• Toward the lee.
NOUN:
• the direction toward which the wind is blowing
• the side sheltered or away from the wind
• The lee side; the lee.
• the direction in which the wind is blowing
• the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
• lee side
ADVERB:
• toward the wind
• towards this side
ADJECTIVE:
• towards the lee side
• on or towards the side sheltered from the wind; downwind
• 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.
• on the side away from the wind
• towards where the wind blows

Words related to LEEWARD

leewardly16 leewards12

Words that contain LEEWARD

leewards12 leewardly16

How to use LEEWARD in a sentence

• In that case, however, the cloud continued to leeward.
• There was no doubt about it this time, and I glanced to leeward.
• For the morning of the third day all the summits of leeward Malaita smoked into speech.
• She then tried her hand with the vessels to leeward, and, notwithstanding the distance, she succeeded better.
• Perceiving that the storm was likely to pass to leeward, we remained stationary a little time, to watch the closing scene.
• All this time, the Black Prince remained like a log upon the water, trying to get clear of her wreck, the combat driving slowly away from her to leeward.
• The voice could be heard by one directly to leeward, the howling of the winds and the roar of the waters having materially lessened within the last few hours.
• When the summit was gained, we lay down awhile on the leeward side to recover ourselves.
• There is little doubt that he was washed from the anchor stock, and carried away to leeward, in the midst of the darkness of that midnight hour.
• The breakers were quite as numerous to leeward as to windward, but the fact of there being so many of them made smooth water between them.
• Mark now began to hope that his friend might pass over the many reefs that lay in his track, and gain the open water to leeward.
• When Robert Betts was driven off the Reef, by the hurricane of the preceding year, he had no choice but to let the Neshamony drive to leeward with him.
• On the same day Drake and de Grasse encountered one another off the latter island, the French being to leeward, nearest the land.
• But on the 21st of June some of our people, from an eminence on shore, discerned a ship to leeward, with her courses even with the horizon.
• But if the more numerous fleet is to leeward it ought none the less to leave its rear astern, because the wind may shift in the fight.
• There was no decent cover, so we sat on the leeward side of a mound of sand.
• In this difficulty, Captain Cook was for some time in doubt, whether he should run the chance of meeting with a harbour in the islands to leeward, or return to Karakakooa.
• He was, as he had said, gazing at what looked like a spark or star to leeward, when turning his head he found the Shape close beside him.
• Another boat, a small one, was seen, bottom upward, about an eighth of a mile to leeward.
• I gathered a little armful of dry grass, and lighted it with a match to the leeward of us.
• I had never hoped to recover in this prosaic world my long-lost paradise of the drop-curtain, but morning revealed it to me here on Leeward Island.
• It would not take less than an hour to get to it, and then there was the chance of falling to leeward.
• Captain Drawlock lost his footing, and was thrown to leeward.
• Meanwhile, the pirates received intelligence that a vessel was to the leeward of the island, which they pursued and captured.
• At daybreak of the 21st, the combined fleets were distinctly seen from the Victory, about twelve miles to leeward.
• In the vicinity of the Khasi village, often just below the brow of the hill to the leeward side, are to be seen dark woods of oak and other trees.
• When hope was gone, the helm had been deserted, and as all the lower sails had been hauled up to avoid the flames, the vessel had drifted, many minutes, nearly dead to leeward.
• At the same time we saw a ship at anchor near the shore, about 2 mile to leeward of us.

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