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Significats de to windward en anglès

The side toward the wind.

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        Examples for "weatherboard"
        Examples for "weatherboard"
        1
        His weatherboard house was small and on the wrong side of modest.
        News.com.au
        2
        It has a flat landscape of weatherboard homes perched on small sections.
        Radio NZ
        3
        There were two late-model vehicles parked out front of the weatherboard bungalow.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Jeanette had lived in a standalone weatherboard home on Discovery Place for 32 years.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Some of them had weatherboard houses but the majority of them was log houses.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        1
        I'll take the windward side and you can bivouac against the fire.
        The Daredevil
        2
        They happened to be on the windward side, as we called it.
        The Bark Covered House / Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Gr...
        3
        Nice guy, though, over on the windward side in-whatwas the name?
        Michelangelo's Shoulder
        4
        The shack: showing the natural rocky protection on the windward side
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        5
        The steamer approached and kept at a certain distance on the windward side.
        The Golden House
        1
        Springing up the shrouds on the weather side, Desmond was quickest aloft.
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        2
        Keen walked to the weather side and tried to empty his mind.
        Honour This Day
        3
        Mr Laroche, put more hands on the weather side as she comes clear!'
        For my Country’s Freedom
        4
        One of the boats was chafing against the weather side of the ship.
        Ralph Granger's Fortunes
        5
        On the weather side of the ship the boats were manned.
        Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser / A Brave Fight Against Odds
        Ús de to windward en anglès
        1
        At daybreak saw four sail to windward; our squadron sent in chase.
        The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
        2
        His arm was arrested, and the grave old master pointed to windward.
        The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
        3
        At 3 P.M. the Investigator lifted her anchor and worked to windward.
        The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson / With the journal of her first ...
        4
        The smoke from the bad cigarette drifted past their heads to windward.
        The Slave of the Lamp
        5
        When I passed to windward of the carcass, the bad smell ceased.
        Six Months at the Cape
        6
        Turn the hands up to muster, and haul the fore-sheet to windward.
        The Privateersman
        7
        How often has Paddy told you to keep to windward of it!
        The Blue Lagoon
        8
        When night had fallen the captain made out a sail to windward.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
        9
        Shortly after dawn next morning the lookout reported four vessels to windward.
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        10
        He jerked himself around to stare to windward and ahead of us.
        Jim Davis
        11
        His glance was fixed to windward and his movements were strangely quick.
        The Lure of the North
        12
        But I want to hold these agencies as an anchor to windward.
        Burned Bridges
        13
        The boats were far out of sight, as they believed, to windward.
        Old Jack
        14
        They rounded the point, and put the boat's head nearer to windward.
        The Romance of the Coast
        15
        You must expect big interests to get an anchor out to windward.
        All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
        16
        Again he looked to windward, carrying his glance round on every side.
        In the Eastern Seas