Meanings
- pronunciation spellinguncountablePronunciation spelling of windward.
To wind'ard! To wind'ard! It was a long, long cry that stayed with us through many days and many nights. To wind'ard! To wind'ard!
2006, Alan Villiers, chapter 16, in Cruise of the Conrad, page 3052 more examples
Expecting to be taken aback with a sharp squall we kept our eyes well to the wind'ard, for you see on this river with cannibals on the lookout and no vessels there was no chance of skulking on shore for a down-river craft.
1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter II, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, page 2011 MAKING THE MAINSAIL FAST NEAR CAPE HORN, SWAYING ON THE FOOTROPE 16th May 1929. "On the 29th day: 'The wind is south'ard with maddening cold from the frigid hell of Antarctica, but we go course; it is not strong, but there is a Cape Horn howl in it when she rolls to wind'ard.
2000, Alan Villiers, chapter 2, in The Last of the Wind Ships, unnumbered page
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