leeside
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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 leeside of us lay full of flats and dangers, inevitable if the wind blew hard at south.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes
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
Suddenly we rolled, down went the leeside, and I with it, but I caught hold of the lowest step of the forecastle ladder and sat fast.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
We hurried over to the leeside of the rock, and at once embarked the two women with the infant, who seemed to be totally exhausted.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
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