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WINDWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side of something that is toward the wind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("windward" is a kind of...):
face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)
Antonym:
leeward (the side of something that is sheltered from the wind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The direction from which the wind is coming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("windward" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "windward"):
weather side; weatherboard; windward side (the side toward the wind)
Antonym:
leeward (the direction in which the wind is blowing)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the side exposed to the wind
Example:
the windward islands
Classified under:
Similar:
upwind; weather (towards the side exposed to wind)
Antonym:
leeward (on the side away from the wind)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toward the wind
Example:
they were sailing windward
Synonyms:
downwind; windward
Classified under:
Antonym:
leeward (away from the wind)
Context examples:
The sealing boats are not made for windward work.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was only next day, when Wainwright Island loomed to windward, close abeam, that Wolf Larsen opened his mouth in prophecy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Back we held, two miles and more to windward of the struggling cockle-shell, when the flying jib was run down and the schooner hove to.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Wolf Larsen motioned Louis to keep off slightly, and we dashed abreast of the boat, not a score of feet to windward.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Though the rest of her sails were gone, the jib, backed to windward, and the mainsail hauled down flat, were themselves holding, and holding her bow to the furious sea as well.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Wolf Larsen repeated his manœuvre, holding off and then rounding up to windward and drifting down upon it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close on the port tack and cutting in to windward of a familiar spritsail close-hauled on the same tack ahead of us.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The first struck fifty feet to windward of the boat, the second alongside; and at the third the boat-steerer let loose his steering-oar and crumpled up in the bottom of the boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Even as he spoke, a bullet was deflected by a brass-capped spoke of the wheel between his hands and screeched off through the air to windward.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
