Meaning

(nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
4. Calm, peace.
5. (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.
6. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
7. Obsolete form of li (“traditional Chinese unit of distance”).

Example Sentences

the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

We lurked under lee.

Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

lee side, lee shore, lee helm

A thousand demons lurk within the lee.

Here, after little less than a month's protracted journey over a distance, by the Chinese itinerary, of 950 lees, and by our own calculation 280 miles, from the canal, we quitted the magnificent Keang to cross the lake […]

Word Forms

• lees

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