leeward
lee werd
- n the direction in which the wind is blowing
- n the side of something that is sheltered from the wind
- a on the side away from the wind
on the leeward side of the island - r toward the wind
they were sailing leeward
- In the windward and leeward tests, Enterprise was at its best in a light breeze, swift into the wind but slow off it.
- Beating upwind against a 20-knot southwester on the twice-around, windward-leeward course of 24 miles, Columbia was out ahead rounding the first mark, plowed on through the .
- Twenty years later, many of From's battles have been woneven within the most leeward precincts of the Democratic Partyand others have been supplanted by new concerns.