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
At the summons of the boatswain, the men came aft, and stood in a body on the leeside of the quarterdeck, with their hats off, and impatience in their looks.
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Frederick Marryat
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
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 Edward Harrison Barker
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
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