Crossword-Solution: AWEATHER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aweather | adv. | On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather! |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AWEATHER | anagram | WHEATEAR |
We have 10 clues for the answer “AWEATHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A position of the helm. | 1 answer |
| Alee's opposite | 1 answer |
| Into the wind | 1 answer |
| Not sheltered, on ship | 1 answer |
| On the windward side | 1 answer |
| On the windy side | 1 answer |
| Opposite of alee | 1 answer |
| Toward the windy side | 1 answer |
| To windward. | 2 answers |
| Windward | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AWEATHER (5)
Beating out aweather, against the gentle landward breeze he beheld a great ship on their starboard bow, that he conceived to be some three or four miles off, and--as well as he could judge her at that distance--of a tonnage equal if not superior to their own.
Came the creak of blocks and the rattle of slatting sails as they swung aweather, and Captain Blood turned and beckoned Lord Julian forward.
While these two irritated friends stood fronting each other with mutual indignation in their eyes and attitudes, they were joined by Pipes, who, without taking the least notice of the situation in which he found them, told his master, that he might up with the top-gallant masts of his heart, and out with his rejoicing pendants; for as to Miss Emily, he had clapped her helm aweather, the vessel wore, and now she was upon the other tack, standing right into the harbour of his good-will.
The vessels ran along thus for 15 minutes, gradually coming closer together, and Captain Dickenson put his helm aweather, to run his adversary aboard.
Hans, seizing the rudder which had flown out of his hand, puts it hard aweather in order to escape from such dangerous vicinity; but no sooner does he do so, than he finds he is flying from Scylla to Charybdis.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).