Crossword-Solution: WINDWARD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Windward | n. | The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward. |
| Windward | a. | Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands. |
| Windward | adv. | Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “WINDWARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not on the lee side | 1 answer |
| VIRGIN Islands passage | 1 answer |
| the direction from which the wind is coming | 1 answer |
| Lee's opposite | 2 answers |
| CAPE Verde Islands, group of | 4 answers |
| AFRICAN island(s) | 19 answers |
| Nautical direction | 24 answers |
| Nautical term | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WINDWARD (5)
Hidden in the alder-bushes, There he waited till the deer came, Till he saw two antlers lifted, Saw two eyes look from the thicket, Saw two nostrils point to windward, And a deer came down the pathway, Flecked with leafy light and shadow.
Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down, leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
Then we sat High on the ridge to windward of the stench, While each man kept he fellow alert and rated Roundly the sluggard if he chanced to nap.
The _California_ was to windward of us, and had every advantage; yet, while the breeze was stiff we held our own.
Knight appeared with the rug, and they sat down behind a weather-cloth on the windward side, just as the two red eyes of the Needles glared upon them from the gloom, their pointed summits rising like shadowy phantom figures against the sky.
Quotes with WINDWARD (2)
When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.
To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I f…
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Appears in: Newsday, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2010–2020).