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Meanings of to windward in inglés

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
        Usage of to windward in inglés
        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
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        He jerked himself around to stare to windward and ahead of us.
        Jim Davis
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        His glance was fixed to windward and his movements were strangely quick.
        The Lure of the North
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        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
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        They rounded the point, and put the boat's head nearer to windward.
        The Romance of the Coast
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        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