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

Fortunately the wind kept steady on the port beam, so that the damage to the starboard rigging could be secured without interrupting the progress of the voyage, it being on the leeside.

From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Runciman, Walter

The south wind was blowing with such force that I lay down on the leeside of a bush to be sheltered from it.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison

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 Erichsen, Hugo

The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating—full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various