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

Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."

From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo

We hurried over to the leeside of the rock, and at once embarked the two women with the infant, who seemed to be totally exhausted.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Lieutenant Winterbottom had another party on the leeside of the quarter-deck.

From Newton Forster by Marryat, Frederick

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 Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.