leeside
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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating—full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
The leeside of us lay full of flats and dangers, inevitable if the wind blew hard at south.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes
When they got on board he found her a chair on the leeside of the boat.
From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
Suddenly we rolled, down went the leeside, and I with it, but I caught hold of the lowest step of the forecastle ladder and sat fast.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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