单词 | leewardly |
释义 | leewardly, a.|ˈliːwədlɪ, ˈljuːədlɪ| [f. leeward + -ly1.] Of a ship: Apt to fall to leeward. Opposed to weatherly.
1683W. Hacke Collect. Voy. i. (1699) 31 So leewardly a Ship, that she would not make her way better than N. by W. with this Sea. 1801Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1843) IV. 274 She was such a leewardly ship..that I should often be forced to anchor on a lee shore. 1865Examiner 18 Mar. 163 They are far too leewardly to work to windward. fig.1890Clark Russell My Shipm. Louise II. xxiv. 216 There's the Whole Dooty o' Man—a bit leewardly; I couldn't fetch to windward of it myself. |

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