Crossword clues for windward
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windward \Wind"ward\, n. The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
To lay an anchor to the windward, a figurative expression, signifying to adopt precautionary or anticipatory measures for success or security.
Windward \Wind"ward\, a. Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
Windward \Wind"ward\, adv. Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"on the side toward which the wind blows," 1540s, from wind (n.1) + -ward.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing. 2 On the side exposed to the wind. adv. In a direction from which the wind blows, against the wind. n. 1 The direction from which the wind blows. 2 The side receiving the wind's force.
WordNet
adj. on the side exposed to the wind; "the windward islands" [ant: leeward]
n. the direction from which the wind is coming [ant: leeward]
Usage examples of "windward".
Half an hour later he directed the foresail to be brailed, brought his jigger-sheet in flat, put his helm hard down, and hauled the jib-sheet to windward.
Though the reeds thrashed and whipped at the oarsmen on the windward side of the boat, they did palliate the force of wind and waves to some degree.
The vessel to windward proved to be that famous, seamanlike ship of the line Thunderer, seventy-four.
Here they found exactly what they needed--a good harbor, just at the junction of the Windward Channel with the old Bahama Channel--a spot where four- fifths of the Spanish-Indian trade would pass by their very wharves.
Villemin to take station to windward of Bucephalas, even if that meant the sacrifice of time, vital minutes when the commodore would have to face both his enemies at once.
Mosquito Coast, the galleons, in making their course from Porto Bello to Havana, first sailed back to Cartagena upon the eastward coast eddy, so as to get well to windward of Nicaragua before attempting the passage through the Yucatan Channel.
Sling in half a dozen in a wet blanket from the crossjack yard, just under the windward side of the awning.
Later, while Will stood working on the foredeck with the men, Kaye called Sam Holt across to his point high to windward, and quizzed him harder.
Away up to windward the yawl was lowering her trysail with a six-foot rent in it, laying to under her foresheets and mizzen.
We ran off on the other tack, figuring on getting to windward of her, whereupon she went off on the other tack herself, and we saw she was a schooner with a raking stern and bow and almost no freeboard, so that she seemed plastered to the water.
As the most powerful but slowest ship in the squadron, the Arcturus kept the windward station, and Mansur had the sharpest pair of eyes on board.
Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
The canvas bucked and thumped away, anchored by the deep-irons and the heavy buffering on the windward wall, inside their tent. Having worked so hard and so quickly, and having nothing left to do, they ate an extra ration of sweet dried fruit and grain-cakes in the pitch blackness and settled down to rest through to the wind and the storm.
The jib was backwinded, sheeted to the windward side, in effect, blowing the bow down off the wind while the main and the mizzen were trying to put it up wind.
Now with the sea anchor in place, it was the brash ice and bergy bergs that were floating downwind faster than they were, and knocking against the windward hull, even as the leeward hull still slammed against a thickening ice mass.