leeward

Etymology

lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”)

adj

  1. On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

adv

  1. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
    No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…] ca. 1909, Mark Twain, ;;Letters from the Earth Letter VIII

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