leewardly, a.
(ˈliːwədlɪ, ˈljuːədlɪ)
[f. leeward + -ly1.]
Of a ship: Apt to fall to leeward. Opposed to weatherly.
| 1683 W. Hacke Collect. Voy. i. (1699) 31 So leewardly a Ship, that she would not make her way better than N. by W. with this Sea. 1801 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1843) IV. 274 She was such a leewardly ship..that I should often be forced to anchor on a lee shore. 1865 Examiner 18 Mar. 163 They are far too leewardly to work to windward. |
| fig. 1890 Clark Russell My Shipm. Louise II. xxiv. 216 There's the Whole Dooty o' Man—a bit leewardly; I couldn't fetch to windward of it myself. |