leeside
Example Sentences
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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
Lieutenant Winterbottom had another party on the leeside of the quarter-deck.
From Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
The deck was like the wall of a house, and, when I saw the foaming sea rising up on the leeside as high as the hatches, I felt sure she was turning bottom up.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen
Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."
From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
